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.

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:

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

Offences

Consider handing out Pleading guilty (above), Pleading not guilty (above) or Criminal records (below) when handing out these fact sheets:

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