PRISONERS LEGAL SERVICE PANEL

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• Information for Applicants - Prisoners Legal Service
• Practice Standards - Prisoners Legal Service
• Prisoners Legal Service Panel - Service Agreement
• Grants Allocation Guidelines 

CHILDREN'S CRIMINAL LAW PANEL AT SPECIALIST CHILDRENS COURTS 

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GENERAL CRIMINAL LAW PANEL

Please note that the next Selection Committee meeting for the General Criminal Law Panel is scheduled for late October 2009. Applications must be submitted before Friday, 9 October 2009. 

Practitioners MUST be appointed to the General Criminal Law Panel to be eligible for inclusion on to their Local Court Duty Roster in 2010.

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• Information for Applicants - General Criminal Law Panel
• Practice Standards - General Criminal Law Panel
• General Criminal Law Panel - Service Agreement
• Supervisory Undertaking - General Criminal Law Panel
• Duty Solicitor Scheme Guidelines
• Criminal Law Fee Scales 

Appointment to this panel excludes the specialist Children's Courts that are covered by the Children's Crime Panel.

Please note that current Duty Solicitor Scheme Guidelines apply.

SERIOUS CRIMINAL LAW PANEL

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• Information for Applicants - Serious Criminal Law Panel
• Serious Criminal Law Panel - Practice Standards 2008
• Serious Criminal Law Panel - Service Agreement
• Serious Criminal Law Panel - Information for Panel Referees
• Criminal Law Fee Scales

The Serious Criminal Law Panel is only open to solicitors to instruct Counsel. This is not a panel for solicitors to conduct matters as a solicitor advocate. Counsel may be briefed by panel solicitors in appropriate matters subject to Legal Aid NSW policies and approval.

Please note that practitioners wishing to undertake work in the jurisdictions covered by the General Criminal Law Panel will need to apply to that panel.

MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY PANEL

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• Information for Panel Applicants
• Mental Health Practice Standards 2008
  Mental Health Service Agreement 2008
• Grants Allocation Policies
• Fee Scales
• Information for Panel Referees

GENERAL CIVIL LAW PANEL

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• Information for Applicants
• Civil Law Practice Standards 2008
• Civil Law Policies in Brief
• Civil Law Panel - Service Agreement
  Fee Scale for State Civil Law matters
• Fee Scale for Commonwealth Civil Law matters

CARE AND PROTECTION (adults & children) PANEL

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• Care and Protection Panel - Information for New Applicants
• Care and Protection Panel - Information for Current Panel Members 
• Care and Protection Panel - Practice Standards
• Care & Protection Panel - Service Agreement
• Care & Protection Panel - Information for Panel Referees
• Grants Allocation Guidelines
• Fee Scales - Care and Protection
• Law Society's Representation Principles for Children's Lawyers