What do we fund?

• Committal hearing (specified proceedings)
• Property arbitration
• Additional preparation in Domestic Violence matters
• End a child support agreement
• Additional preparation
• Treating medical practitioner report
• Criminal law
• Attend final hearing
• Motor vehicle personal injury claims
• War veterans
• Additional preparation in civil law
• Stage two - court ordered conference / additional family group meeting / case plan review meeting
• Review decisions made by Child Support Agency (Appeal to SSAT)
• Extraordinary cases in the Magistrates or Childrens Court
• Plea of guilty in the District Court, Children’s Court of Queensland or the Supreme Court
• Summary matters (non specified proceedings) - plea of guilty or trial
• Accommodation
• Criminal law
• Social assessment report
• Party, Non-Party, Child (direct representation)
• Stage 2.1 - Initiate or respond to court proceedings
• Appeal of a domestic violence order
• Initial family report (ICL only)
• Child protection
• All other civil law matters
• Stage one - Inspect court or department file
• Parentage testing for child support (male applicants)
• Specialist medical procedures
• Administrative Appeals Tribunal (review of decisions made by SSAT)
• Unfair dismissals
• Stage 1 - Dispute resolution
• Appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Extraordinary cases in criminal law
• Interpretation of family law guidelines
• Stage one - Initial assistance
• Stage two - Court ordered conference / additional family group meeting / case plan review meeting
• Legal Aid Queensland Family Dispute Resolution Conference (in-litigation)
• Independent Children's Lawyers
• Representation at the Mental Health Review Tribunal
• Additional preparation
• Preliminary hearing or final hearing in a Dangerous Prisoner matter
• Guideline 2 - Family Dispute Resolution (FDR Services)
• Assistance at QCAT - party, non-party, direct representation (child)
• Initial social assessment report / other expert report
• Appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Respond to application for a Community Safety Order
• District Court or Children’s Court of Queensland Appeal
• Obtain, discharge, vary or appeal parenting orders
• Travel by air
• Cross-examine protected witness at trial in the Magistrates Court – DV related offence only
• Counsel in summary matters
• Representation until final parenting orders are made
• Magistrates Court matters
• Additional preparation in criminal law
• Psychological report
• Lodging a complaint
• Summary matters (plea of guilty or trial) in the Magistrates Court
• Committal hearing (non specified)
• Representation at court for property disputes
• Additional preparation in Child Protection matters
• Responding to an application to enforce a child support assessment
• Pre-sentence report
• Civil law
• Counsel at interim hearing
• Assistance after final orders
• Medical negligence claims
• Assistance in any other defence force matter
• Agents in civil law matters
• Stage two - Interim hearings
• Federal Circuit Court has referred matter back to Social Securities Tribunal for rehearing
• Extraordinary cases in the District Court / Children's Court of Queensland
• Ex officio plea of guilty
• Summary matters (specified proceedings) - plea of guilty or trial
• Conduct money (subpoenas)
• Family law
• General medical practitioner report
• Separate Representative
• Stage 2.2 - Representation until trial directions
• Domestic violence orders
• Updated family report (ICL only)
• Civil Law Legal Aid Scheme (CLLAS)
• Child Protection matters
• Stage two - Litigation
• Parentage testing for child support (female applicants)
• All other matters
• Social Security Appeals Tribunal
• General protections
• Stage 2 - Litigation
• Expensive cases in criminal law
• Parenting disputes
• Stage one - Vary or revoke a child protection order
• Stage two - interim hearing
• Court-Based Family Dispute Resolution Conference (in-litigation)
• All other parties
• Appeal a Mental Health Review Tribunal decision
• Counsel at interim hearing
• Application for amendment in a Dangerous Prisoner matter
• Guideline 4 - Parenting orders
• Appeal a QCAT decision
• Appeal to the Federal Court
• Updated or supplementary social assessment report
• Appeal to the Federal Court
• Variation of the conditions of a Community Safety Supervision Order
• Court of Appeal
• Contravention of a court order or contempt of court (where a final order exists)
• Travel by car
• Counsel in summary trials (DV related offence only)
• Counsel at early stages of committal proceedings
• Representation to implement final orders
• Childrens Court matters
• Appeal record books in criminal law matters
• Medical specialist report
• External dispute resolution
• Queensland Drug and Alcohol Court (QDAC)
• Committal hearing (committal project)
• Preservation of property (injunctive relief)
• Complexity in civil law matters
• Make an application for the recovery of child support arrears
• Applications in a proceeding
• Family law
• Psychological brief assessment and report
• Slip and fall type personal injury claims
• Extraordinary cases in the Supreme Court
• Trial in the District Court, Children’s Court of Queensland or the Supreme Court
• Committal hearing in the childrens court
• Interpreters
• Civil law
• Psychiatric/medical specialist report
• Psychiatric assessment report (ICL only)
• Consumer protection
• Counsel in Domestic Violence matters
• Stage three - Prepare for contested final hearing
• Court proceedings to obtain an order for parentage testing in child support matters
• Appeal a QCAT decision
• Federal Circuit Court of Australia
• Stage 3 - Prepare for trial
• Additional preparation - other
• Property disputes
• Stage two - Litigation
• Applications in a proceeding
• Guideline 12 - Property
• Contravention of supervision order in a Dangerous Prisoner matter
• Periodic review of a Community Safety Order
• Subsequent appeal to the Court of Appeal
• Recovery, location and/or information order (where a final order exists)
• Travel by public transport
• Cross-examine protected witness at committal hearing in the Magistrates Court or a sentence or trial in the District or Supreme Court
• Counsel to make a formal summary application at committal
• Magistrates court bail
• Appeals
• District Court, Childrens Court of Queensland or Supreme Court matters
• Co-accused policy
• Occupational therapist report
• Court proceedings
• Financial enforcement proceedings (where a final order exists)
• Counsel reading fees in civil law matters
• Applications for adult child maintenance
• Agent fees
• Disbursements
• Psychological long assessment and report
• Professional negligence claims
• Counsel in civil law matters
• District Court and Childrens Court of Queensland bail
• Childrens Court bail
• Prison visits
• Nature and extent of funding
• Sexual risk assessment report (ICL only)
• Dangerous prisoners
• Stage four - Attend final hearing
• Parentage testing in child support / maintenance matters
• Stage 4 - Representation at trial
• Independent Children's Lawyer
• Stage 3 - Prepare for contested final hearing
• Agent fees
• Annual reviews in a Dangerous Prisoner matter
• Appeal of a Community Safety Order
• High Court of Australia Appeal
• Consent orders
• Travel by hire car
• Counsel to cross-examine witnesses at committal
• Criminal law appeals
• Counsel in criminal law matters
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Committal hearing
• Transfer of property (where a final order exists)
• Expensive cases for civil law matters
• Applications for child support / child maintenance where the paying parent lives overseas
• Filing fees
• Neuropsychological assessment and report
• Wills / estate / survivorship claims
• Supreme Court bail
• Process servers
• Re-opening a sentence in the Childrens Court
• Psychological report
• Psychological report
• Domestic violence
• Stage five - appeal interim/final order
• Stage 5 - Appeals
• Child support/maintenance disputes
• Stage four - Attend final hearing / Post final orders assistance
• Expert reports in family law matters
• Appeals in a Dangerous Prisoner matter
• Application for pardon
• International child abduction
• Travel for clients in order to give effect to a recovery order
• Counsel to make bail application in the Supreme Court
• General medical practitioner report
• Mental Health Court
• Expert reports in criminal law matters
• Re-opening a sentence in the Magistrates Court
• Property Mediation Pilot
• Extraordinary case grant for Dangerous Prisoner matters
• Vary an overseas maintenance liability (carer and children live overseas)
• Parentage testing
• Psychiatric report
• Work related personal injuries claims
• Expert reports in civil law matters
• Re-opening a sentence in the higher courts
• Travel
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Medical specialist report
• Employment law
• Representation at QCAT
• Family dispute resolution conference after proceedings have commenced
• Direct representation of children
• Stage five - Appeal an interim or final child protection order
• Filing fees
• Specialist medical procedures involving children
• Senior Counsel, Queen's Counsel or dual counsel
• CCC or ACC criminal investigations hearings
• Expert witnesses in criminal law matters
• Extraordinary case for Community Safety Order matters
• Appeal a decision of Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
• Expert witnesses
• Medical specialist (excluding psychiatrist)
• Test case / public interest cases
• Expert witness fees for civil law matters
• Dietrich applications
• Photocopying
• Occupational therapist report
• Equal opportunity and discrimination
• Divorce or nullity of marriage
• Assistance at QCAT
• Expert witnesses
• Multiple grants of aid policy - committal and higher court matters
• Departure orders
• Other reports
• Expert reports
• Transcripts in civil law matters
• Double Jeopardy exception application
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Extradition proceedings
• Spousal maintenance disputes
• Youth justice conferencing
• Transcripts in criminal law matters
• Stay orders
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Waiting time in civil law matters
• General medical practitioner report
• Inquests
• Commonwealth Family Violence and Cross-Examination of Parties Scheme
• Cross examine protected witness
• Vacating a plea in criminal law matters
• Mental health matters
• DNA historic case review
• Waiting time in criminal law matters
• Migration
• Brisbane and Ipswich District Court Sexual Violence Case Management Pilot
• Application in a proceeding in Community Safety Order matters
• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Appeals
• Other Federal and High Court proceedings
• Peace and good behaviour
• Proceeds of crime
• Social security and other commonwealth benefits
• Veteran matters
• Workers' compensation
• Sexual Assault Counselling Privilege (Counselling Notes Protect)
• Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Matters
• Application to alter the record of sex
• Community safety orders