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.
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.
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 Going to court – pleading guilty
- P2 Going to court – pleading not guilty
- P3 Going to court – diversion
- P6 Going to court – rehearings
- P7 Appealing a Magistrates’ Court decision
- P8 Going to court – writing a character reference
- P9 Going to court – what I want to say in court
Offences
Consider handing out Pleading guilty, Pleading not guilty or Criminal records when handing out these fact sheets:
- M1 Criminal records
- M2 Demerit points
- O1 Speeding
- O2 Driving an unregistered vehicle
- O3 Running a red light
- O4 Use of a mobile phone while driving
- O5 Drink driving
- O6 Drug driving
- O7 Unlicensed driving
- O8 Driving while suspended or disqualified
- O9 Careless driving
- O10 Hoon driving and impoundment
- O11 Breach of road rules
- O12 Leaving the scene of a vehicle accident
- O13 Public drunkenness
- O14 Drug possession (possession of cannabis)
- O15 Failure to wear a seatbelt
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Disclaimer: The material in this print-out relates to the law as it applies in the state of Victoria. It is intended as a general guide only. Readers should not act on the basis of any material in this print-out without getting legal advice about their own particular situations. Victoria Legal Aid disclaims any liability howsoever caused to any person in respect of any action taken in reliance on the contents of the publication.
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Reviewed 30 August 2022