Fact sheets for clients
Fact sheets for clients
These fact sheets are intended for lawyers to hand out to their clients.
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)
- Remedies (docx, 138 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 a final hearing (docx, 136.68 KB)
- How to prove your family law case: rules about what you can say in court (docx, 136.49 KB)
- How to change your family law court order (docx, 135.3 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 (docx, 135.71 KB)
Summary crime fact sheets
These fact sheets have been developed for duty lawyers to give to their clients attending the Magistrates' Court of Victoria for summary crime offences.
Processes
- P1 Pleading guilty (docx, 132 KB)
- P2 Pleading not guilty (docx, 130.75 KB)
- P3 Diversion (docx, 97.98 KB)
- P6 Rehearings (docx, 81.31 KB)
- P7 Appealing a Magistrates' Court decision (docx, 94.85 KB)
- P8 Writing a character reference (docx, 94.29 KB)
- P9 What I want to say in court (docx, 95.12 KB)
Offences
Consider handing out Pleading guilty (above), Pleading not guilty (above) or Criminal records (below) when handing out these fact sheets:
- M1 Criminal records (docx, 100.38 KB)
- M2 Demerit points (docx, 93.5 KB)
- O1 Speeding (docx, 93.17 KB)
- O2 Driving an unregistered vehicle (docx, 92.62 KB)
- O3 Running a red light (docx, 92.71 KB)
- O4 Use of a mobile phone while driving (docx, 93.06 KB)
- O5 Drink driving (docx, 92 KB)
- O6 Drug driving (docx, 90 KB)
- O7 Unlicensed driving (docx, 92.45 KB)
- O8 Drive while suspended or disqualified (docx, 88.11 KB)
- O9 Careless driving (docx, 90.64 KB)
- O10 Hoon driving (docx, 92.76 KB)
- O11 Breach of road rules (docx, 90.59 KB)
- O12 Leaving the scene of a vehicle accident (docx, 90.84 KB)
- O13 Public drunkenness offences (docx, 92.33 KB)
- O14 Possesssion of cannabis (docx, 94.41 KB)
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