Legal System Publications

This document applies to the assessment of costs relating to the Afghanistan Inquiry Legal Assistance Scheme grants and is used to determine whether costs claimed under grants of financial assistance are reasonable.

This form is for current and former serving Australian Defence Force (ADF) members who are the subject of, or participating in, criminal investigations and prosecutions relating to matters arising from the Afghanistan Inquiry.

These guidelines deal with granting legal financial assistance to members and former members of the Australian Defence Force responding to matters relating to the Afghanistan Inquiry.

Summary of meeting outcomes from the first Justice Policy Partnership Meeting.

The Agreement to Implement the Justice Policy Partnership is the mechanism for the parties to develop a joined-up approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander justice policy.

As part of the 2021-2022 review of the Legislation Act 2003, the Review Committee released this discussion paper which was designed to assist stakeholders to provide feedback and submissions to the review by providing background information and posing questions.

The Annual Certificate of Compliance is a document that agencies complete at the end of each financial year to set out the extent to which the agency believes it has complied with the Legal Services Directions 2017.

Data is collected in accordance with the manual across the legal assistance sector. To ensure that the document remains relevant and is fit-for-purpose we will conduct an annual review in consultation with state and territory governments and the legal assistance sector.

The National Legal Assistance Data Strategy was developed in accordance with the National Legal Assistance Partnership 2020-25 (NLAP). It sets the policy framework for the collection, storage, reporting, transmission, and analysis of data that is collected and reported under the NLAP.

In support of its role in monitoring compliance with the Legal Services Directions 2017, OLSC publishes statistical information about non-compliance. This document includes compliance statistics for the 2019-20 financial year.

The Legal Aid Schemes and Services Approval 2023 allows people who receive legal assistance from the organisations listed within it to be exempt from paying court fees.

A statement of the Attorney-General’s Department’s legal services expenditure for the 2019–20 financial year.

The Australian Government is providing additional funding for the legal assistance sector to help address the impact of COVID-19.

The Australian Government is providing additional funding for the legal assistance sector to assist with bushfire response and recovery.

This addendum modifies the operation of the Guidelines with regard to applications for legal financial assistance associated with the inquiries of the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (the National Commissioner).

In support of its role in monitoring compliance with the Legal Services Directions 2017, OLSC publishes statistical information about non-compliance. This document includes compliance statistics for the 2018-19 financial year.

The Guide to Managing Sunsetting of Legislative Instruments provides a detailed overview of the sunsetting regime. The guide also includes templates to apply for a variation to an instrument’s sunsetting date, or an exemption from the sunsetting regime.

Legal services providers (LSPs) should use this template to submit the Pro Bono Work Report.

The final report of the review of the National Partnership Agreement on Legal Assistance Services 2015-2020 (the NPA) was delivered in December 2018.

The National Legal Assistance Partnership builds on the current trajectory of reform for Commonwealth legal assistance under the National Partnership Agreement and recommendations from the 2018 reviews of the NPA and Indigenous Legal Assistance Program.