Early Appropriate Guilty Plea (EAGP) resources

Introduction

The Early Appropriate Guilty Plea (EAGP) Reform commenced on 30 April 2018 and applies to all strictly indictable and elected table offences where proceedings commenced after 30 April 2018.

Below are resources to assist with EAGP.

Primary materials

• EAGP Amending Act: Justice Legislation Amendment (Committals and Guilty Pleas) Bill 2017 (PDF, 450 kB)
• EAGP Explanatory Note (PDF, 248 kB)
• Second Reading Speech: Legislative Assembly (PDF, 376 kB)
• Second Reading Speech: Legislative Council (PDF, 247 kB)
• Local Court of NSW Practice Note: Committal Proceedings Comm 2 (PDF, 396 kB)
• Local Court of NSW Progress of Committal Proceedings through the Local Court-Comm 2 (PDF, 151 kB)
• Brief Protocol between ODPP and NSW Police (PDF, 2.7 MB)
• The Public Defenders
• The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP): Prosecution guidelines
• Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions

Resources for practitioners

• EAGP summary slides (PDF, 530 kB)
• Section 72: Assistance for practitioners (PDF, 108 kB)
• Section 72: Explanation to legally represented accused if statutory utilitarian discount caps apply (PDF, 620 kB)
• Section 72: Explanation to legally represented accused if statutory utilitarian discount caps do not apply (PDF, 474 kB)

Resources for clients

EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court

• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – English (PDF, 83 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – Arabic (PDF, 183 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – Dari (PDF, 0163 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – Farsi (PDF, 156 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – Simplified Chinese (PDF, 113 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – Spanish (PDF, 56 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – Traditional Chinese (PDF, 119 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Children's Court – Vietnamese (PDF, 130 kB)

EAGP fact sheet: Local Court

• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – English (PDF, 56 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – Arabic (PDF, 152 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – Dari (PDF, 163 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – Farsi (PDF, 144 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – Simplified Chinese (PDF, 117 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – Spanish (PDF, 58 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – Traditional Chinese (PDF, 127 kB)
• EAGP fact sheet: Local Court – Vietnamese (PDF, 145 kB)

Quality Standards checklist

This checklist is designed to assist legal practitioners in criminal, family and civil law practice to undertake legal aid work in accordance with the Quality Standards. The checklist is intended to provide clarity on the quality of legal services that legal practitioners at a panel member law practice are expected to deliver when undertaking legal aid work.