Policy bulletins
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 9 (Funding for Drug Testing)
21 Nov 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board has limited the funding available for court-ordered drug tests in family law matters.
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 8 Civil law policy: Mental Health Matters
1 Nov 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board has approved a policy amendment to the Civil Law, Mental Health Matters Policies 6.15.3 and 6.15.4 that removes the merit test for further review proceedings for involuntary patients appearing before the Mental Health Review Tribunal under s 37(1)(c) of the Mental Health Act 2007 (NSW) (the Act).
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 7 (Criminal law policy: Mandatory Disease Testing regime)
5 Sep 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board has approved the introduction of a new policy to provide legal aid for responding to applications to the Local (and Children’s) Court for mandatory testing orders for vulnerable third parties under section 14 of the Mandatory Disease Testing Act 2021 (NSW) (Act).
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 6 (Increased fees for private lawyers in certain Family Law matters)
1 Sep 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board has approved an increase in fees paid to private lawyers for certain Commonwealth family law matters.
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 5 (Increased fees for private lawyers in State matters)
1 Jul 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board approved an increase in fees paid to private lawyers doing legal aid work. The increase to fees applies to all State matters from 1 July 2022.
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 4 (Fee Scale for High Risk Offender matters)
30 Mar 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board has approved a new Fee Scale for High-Risk Offender matters (State and Commonwealth).
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 3 (High Risk Commonwealth Terrorism matters)
29 Mar 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board has approved an amendment to the Commonwealth Terrorism policies to include provision for the Extended Supervision Order regime introduced by the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (High Risk Terrorist Offenders) Act 2020.
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 1 (Family Law – ERA for early intervention mediation)
10 Jan 2022
The Board has approved the use of the Early Resolution Assistance service type for early intervention mediation in family law matters.
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Policy Bulletin 2022 / 2 (Family Law – Merit Test A)
10 Jan 2022
The Legal Aid NSW Board has approved the application of Merit Test A to Commonwealth family law matters.