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Home > For lawyers > Policy Online > Extended Legal Assistance (ELA)

• Family - clients with complex needs
  • Eligibility criteria for clients with complex needs
• Crime - clients with complex needs
  • Eligibility criteria for clients with complex needs
• Civil - clients with complex needs
  • Eligibility criteria for clients with complex needs
• Family - core areas of legal aid work
  • 1. Adoption
  • 2. Child support
  • 3. Care and protection
  • 4. Family law disputes
• Crime - core areas of legal aid work
  • 1. Commonwealth parole matters
  • 2. State parole matters
  • 3. Corrections to the Child Protection Register
• Civil - core areas of legal aid work
  • 1. Disputes with Centrelink
  • 2. Veterans' matters
  • 3. Complaints to the Fair Work Ombudsman and the Fair Work Commission
  • 4. Housing matters at the Housing Appeals Committee and internal reviews
  • 5. Complaints to an ombudsman, statutory body or agency, or a commissioner
  • 6. Complaints to the United Nations
  • 7. Consumer disputes
  • 8. Discrimination complaints
  • 9. Complaints to an external dispute resolution body such as an ombudsman, commissioner, statutory body, regulator or other agency
  • 10. School Exclusion matters
  • 11. Stolen Generations Reparations Scheme Review matters
  • 12. Migration matters
  • 13. Sexual Assault Communications Privilege matters
  • 14. Coronial Inquest matters
  • 15. Victims of violent crime
  • 16. Respect at Work Legal Service
  • 17. Complex fine matters
• Means test
  • Means Test for Extended Legal Assistance (ELA)
• Merit test
  • Merit Test for Extended Legal Assistance
• Criteria for vulnerable clients and law
  • Family - adoption
  • Family - child support
  • Family - care and protection
  • Family - family law disputes
  • Civil law

 

Policy Online

Extended Legal Assistance (ELA)

• Family - clients with complex needs
• Crime - clients with complex needs
• Civil - clients with complex needs
• Family - core areas of legal aid work
• Crime - core areas of legal aid work
• Civil - core areas of legal aid work
• Means test
• Merit test
• Criteria for vulnerable clients and law

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