Fact sheets for clients
Fact sheets for clients
We have fact sheets for lawyers to hand out to their clients. You can also download the accessible Word versions.
Discrimination fact sheets
These fact sheets provide information about discrimination law, including steps to resolve a discrimination complaint informally, participating in a mediation or conciliation and how to prepare for a final hearing at VCAT.
- Achieving a positive outcome at conciliation or mediation (docx, 139.36 KB)
- How to prepare for a hearing at VCAT (docx, 140.92 KB)
- VCAT particulars of complaint (docx, 138.98 KB)
- Speaking to your employer about discrimination (docx, 138.14 KB)
- What is discrimination? (docx, 141.39 KB)
Family law trial fact sheets
These fact sheets are for people who are representing themselves in a final court hearing in the Family Court or the Federal Circuit Court:
- How to run your family law case: representing yourself at final hearing (pdf, 183.98 KB)
- How to prove your family law case: rules about what you can say in court (pdf, 38.57 KB)
- How to change your family law court order (pdf, 33.6 KB)
Personal safety intervention orders
This fact sheet provides information about mediation and what happens at court and after an order has been made. Read Personal safety intervention orders how to apply or respond to an order (pdf, 625.43 KB)
Summary crime fact sheets
These fact sheets below have been developed for duty lawyers to give to their clients attending the Magistrates' Court of Victoria for summary crime offences.
The fact sheets should be handed out with the glossary What do these words mean? (pdf, 89.96 KB)
Processes
- P1 Pleading guilty (pdf, 155.73 KB)
- P2 Pleading not guilty (pdf, 190.72 KB)
- P3 Diversion (pdf, 123.75 KB)
- P4 Licence restoration (pdf, 53.51 KB)
- P5 Removing an alcohol interlock (pdf, 53.81 KB)
- P6 Rehearings (pdf, 110.99 KB)
- P7 Challenging fines (pdf, 121.45 KB)
- P8 Appealing a Magistrates’ Court decision (pdf, 127.54 KB)
- P9 What I want to say in court (pdf, 108.78 KB)
- P10 Writing a character reference (doc, 123 KB)
Offences
Consider handing out Pleading guilty (above), Pleading not guilty (above) or Criminal records (below) when handing out these fact sheets:
- O1 Traffic fines (pdf, 117.09 KB)
- O2 Dog behaviour offences (pdf, 55.13 KB)
- O3 Department of Transport, Failure to give name and address (pdf, 53.92 KB)
- O4 Department of Transport, Prohibited language or behaviour on public transport (pdf, 54.42 KB)
- O5 Department of Transport, Fail to produce a valid ticket (pdf, 53.81 KB)
- O6 Department of Transport, Placing feet on furniture (pdf, 53.91 KB)
- O7 Department of Transport, Smoking on public transport (pdf, 53.69 KB)
- O8 Department of Transport, Fail to produce evidence of concession (pdf, 54.29 KB)
- O9 Agency prosecutions, Fail to lodge a tax return (pdf, 115.45 KB)
- O10 Agency prosecutions, Fishing without a licence (pdf, 54.4 KB)
- O11 Minor traffic offence, Speeding (pdf, 55.54 KB)
- O12 Minor traffic offence, Driving an unregistered vehicle (pdf, 53.91 KB)
- O13 Minor traffic offence, Running a red light (pdf, 53.68 KB)
- O14 Minor traffic offence, Use of a mobile phone while driving (pdf, 53.83 KB)
- O15 Minor traffic offence, Failure to wear a seatbelt (pdf, 52.83 KB)
- O16 Drink driving (first offence) (pdf, 55.94 KB)
- O17 Drug driving (first offence) (pdf, 55.73 KB)
- O18 Unlicensed driving (first offence) (pdf, 53.13 KB)
- O19 Drive while suspended (pdf, 54.05 KB)
- O20 Careless driving (pdf, 53.57 KB)
- O21 Hoon driving and impounding a vehicle (pdf, 166 KB)
- O22 Breach of road rules (pdf, 52.82 KB)
- O23 Leaving the scene of a vehicle accident (pdf, 54.53 KB)
- O24 Public drunkenness offences (pdf, 55.65 KB)
- O25 Hinder police (no assault) (pdf, 54.19 KB)
- O26 Possession of cannabis (pdf, 54.97 KB)
Other
- M1 Criminal records (pdf, 124.42 KB)
- M2 Demerit points (pdf, 111.77 KB)
- Duty lawyer fact sheets index (doc, 122.5 KB)
More free resources
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