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Duty Solicitor - Fee Claims
Claim for Fees Form
One (1) claim is to be submitted for each court date.
You are not required to submit applications for legal aid with your claim for fees.
Illegible or incomplete claims will be returned.
The Claim for Fees form must be fully completed:
a) the apportionment of time section must be completed in addition to the times of arrival, departure and luncheon.
b) number of clients and total time spent for each category of client must be noted on the Claim for Fees form. The total amount of time includes waiting, appearance and, on list days, interview time.
Claims are assessed as follows:
All Local and Children's Court work is paid at a flat hourly rate which is periodically adjusted. Please refer to the scale of fees in criminal matters.
The rostered Duty Solicitor is paid from time of arrival at court. This can be from 8.30 am. The fee is calculated from the time of arrival at court until the time when the duty work is completed, excluding time spent on any private matters and lunch break.
Claims for defended hearings will not be paid
Co-accused rates are not paid.
Travel to and from Court will be paid at the current rate per km only where the return distance exceeds 70 kms and where prior approval has been obtained.
Any claim for disbursements will not be paid under the duty scheme. Any duty matter requiring any expenditure, including preparation time, expert reports and photocopying becomes a case matter requiring a formal grant of legal aid.
To facilitate efficient processing, claims must be received in this office within three months of the date of the court appearance.
Your attention is specifically drawn to the provisions of Section 41 of the Legal Aid Commission Act, 1979 which states:
"A private legal practitioner shall not, except with the approval of the Commission, demand or receive any payment from a legally assisted person in respect of the work assigned by the Commission to the private legal practitioner on behalf of the legally assisted person. Penalty $1000 or imprisonment for 6 months".
List of useful phone numbers for Grants Division:
| Surname | First Name | Position | Phone Number |
| AGUDERA | Lina | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5710 |
| ALVAREZ | Asun | Accounts Clerk | (02) 9219 5969 |
| BARNES | Angelique | Executive Assistant | (02) 9219 5887 |
| BERTOIA | Ivan | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5142 |
| BIBLE | Margaret | Team Leader | (02) 9219 5810 |
| BLADWELL | Michael | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5905 |
| BOK | Rolf | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5031 |
| BOSNICH | Tracey | Snr Grants Merit Officer | (02) 9219 5863 |
| BOURKE | Brenda | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5851 |
| CALDARERI | Charles | Team Leader | (02) 9219 5881 |
| CARTER | Maria | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5886 |
| CHAN | Jenny | Records Clerk | (02) 9219 5175 |
| CHANG | Amy | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5764 |
| CHAPMAN | Lyn | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5077 |
| COCO | Vince | Records Clerk | TTY(02) 9219 5117 |
| COLACO | Wendy | Business Analyst | (02) 9219 5101 |
| DADD | Renee | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5030 |
| DECENA | Francis | Team Leader | (02) 9219 5016 |
| DIMOS | Dora | Manager Audit & Prof Standards | (02) 9219 5860 |
| DOWE | Bryan | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5891 |
| DOWEY | David | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5768 |
| DOYLE | Helen | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5930 |
| EMERY | Sue | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5783 |
| ESTANISLAU | Eng | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5009 |
| FREEMAN | Elissa | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5871 |
| GIMBERT | Joy | Team Leader | (02) 9219 5046 |
| GOLDSBROUGH | Marilyn | Accounts Clerk | (02) 9219 5008 |
| GRANT | Bernadette | Director Grants | (02) 9219 5890 |
| HABIB | John | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5926 |
| HARRIS | Kelly | Legal Assistant | (02) 9219 5913 |
| HAWES | Katherine | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5065 |
| HOLDER | Nicky | Legal Assistant | (02) 9219 5093 |
| HORDER | Glenys | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5849 |
| INGS | Jessica | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5722 |
| JOHNSON | Kylie | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5805 |
| JONES | Sally | Consultant | (02) 9219 5856 |
| KARUNANAYAKE | Shanti | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5885 |
| Surname | First Name | Phone Number | Position |
| KUMAR | Vijay | Records Clerk | (02) 9219 5808 |
| LAMBI | Stephanie | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5879 |
| LAVERY | Joanne | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5944 |
| LEE | Stephen | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5763 |
| LEUNG | Ken | Records Clerk | (02) 9219 5905 |
| LIFU | Shirley | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5842 |
| LOVELL | Charles | Team Leader | (02) 9219 5841 |
| MADDEN | Denise | Consultant | (02) 9219 5999 |
| MASTROSA | Rita | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5804 |
| McAULEY | Christina | Team Leader | (02) 9219 5762 |
| NEILSON | Frances | A/Manager Policy | (02) 9219 5859 |
| NICHOLLS | Margarita | Records Clerk | (02) 9219 5178 |
| PATEL | Mira | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5874 |
| PENO | Ron | Records Clerk | (02) 9219 5179 |
| PHAM | Lien | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5184 |
| PIETERSZ | Cheryl | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5023 |
| POWELL | Eddie | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5866 |
| PUTLAND | Maggie | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5944 |
| RAMADAS | Renu | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5005 |
| RANIERI | Rosa | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5934 |
| RE | Margaret | Grants Policy Officer | (02) 9219 5979 |
| RYAN | Sarah | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5958 |
| SASIDHARAN | Sudha | Records Clerk | (02) 9219 5869 |
| SELMES | Grant | Grants Policy Officer | (02) 9219 5857 |
| SIMS | Rod | A/Manager Records | (02) 9219 5914 |
| STIDWILL | Jane | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5078 |
| STUBS | Rachel | Legal Officer | (02) 9219 5953 |
| TANG | Lina | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5864 |
| TODD | Julie | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5817 |
| VRJILAND | Mareieke | Legal Assistant | (02) 9219 5854 |
| WHITE | Natalie | Grants Officer | (02) 9219 5767 |
| WHITEHEAD | Mary | Manager Operations | (02) 9219 5114 |
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