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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Plan and prepare to provide high-level support on legal assistance support
  2. Clarify legal issues
  3. Perform legal research
  4. Prepare legal documents
  5. Finalise matter

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

communicating effectively on complex legal matters

coordinating with instructing legal officer to prepare for complex trial or service discipline proceedings

ensuring trial/tribunal and post-trial/tribunal administration is completed in accordance with legal and operational procedures

implementing written and oral instructions to prepare effective complex briefs

preparing and processing documents involved in complex criminal law matters

preparing legal documents to support legal assistance matters

preparing summaries of cases in complex legal matters

providing appropriate support on complex legal assistance matters

undertaking analysis of information to determine status and value

undertaking complex research to support instructing legal officer.


Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

complex legal practices and procedures

criminal law matters, legal assistance matters and service discipline proceedings

Defence Force Discipline Act (DFDA) and related legislation

legal terminology relevant to both simple and complex legal matters

relationship between trials and tribunals, and potential impacts on legal proceedings

relevant legal practices and procedures

relevant legal process, documents and exhibits, legislation and sections, and stages involved in the legal process

summary hearing/court/tribunal processes and their relevance to paralegal operational procedures

trials and service discipline proceedings and their relevance to paralegal operational procedures.