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Evidence Guide: DEFDPL006 - Provide support in legal assistance matters

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Tips for gathering evidence to demonstrate your skills

The important thing to remember when gathering evidence is that the more evidence the better - that is, the more evidence you gather to demonstrate your skills, the more confident an assessor can be that you have learned the skills not just at one point in time, but are continuing to apply and develop those skills (as opposed to just learning for the test!). Furthermore, one piece of evidence that you collect will not usualy demonstrate all the required criteria for a unit of competency, whereas multiple overlapping pieces of evidence will usually do the trick!

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DEFDPL006 - Provide support in legal assistance matters

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Scope the provision of paralegal support

  1. Receive legal assistance task from client or instructing legal officer
  2. Confirm purpose of client requirement
  3. Outline legal limits of own responsibility clearly to client and establish mutual expectations, in accordance with operating guidelines
Receive legal assistance task from client or instructing legal officer

Completed
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Confirm purpose of client requirement

Completed
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Outline legal limits of own responsibility clearly to client and establish mutual expectations, in accordance with operating guidelines

Completed
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Prepare and process documents

  1. Identify and prepare documents to meet task requirements
  2. Check incoming documents and contact sender where additional information is required
  3. Review documents with instructing legal officer
Identify and prepare documents to meet task requirements

Completed
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Check incoming documents and contact sender where additional information is required

Completed
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Review documents with instructing legal officer

Completed
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Perform legal research

  1. Use and retrieve precedents and case law in conjunction with instructing legal officer to complete task
  2. Maintain records of research outcomes in accordance with operating procedures
Use and retrieve precedents and case law in conjunction with instructing legal officer to complete task

Completed
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Maintain records of research outcomes in accordance with operating procedures

Completed
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Assessed

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _________

Signature: ________________________________________________

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1

Scope the provision of paralegal support

1.1

Receive legal assistance task from client or instructing legal officer

1.2

Confirm purpose of client requirement

1.3

Outline legal limits of own responsibility clearly to client and establish mutual expectations, in accordance with operating guidelines

2

Prepare and process documents

2.1

Identify and prepare documents to meet task requirements

2.2

Check incoming documents and contact sender where additional information is required

2.3

Review documents with instructing legal officer

3

Perform legal research

3.1

Use and retrieve precedents and case law in conjunction with instructing legal officer to complete task

3.2

Maintain records of research outcomes in accordance with operating procedures

Required Skills and Knowledge

ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1

Scope the provision of paralegal support

1.1

Receive legal assistance task from client or instructing legal officer

1.2

Confirm purpose of client requirement

1.3

Outline legal limits of own responsibility clearly to client and establish mutual expectations, in accordance with operating guidelines

2

Prepare and process documents

2.1

Identify and prepare documents to meet task requirements

2.2

Check incoming documents and contact sender where additional information is required

2.3

Review documents with instructing legal officer

3

Perform legal research

3.1

Use and retrieve precedents and case law in conjunction with instructing legal officer to complete task

3.2

Maintain records of research outcomes in accordance with operating procedures

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:

analysing information to determine status and reliability

assisting instructing legal officer to prepare for trial or service discipline proceedings

communicating effectively and logically on legal matters

implementing written and oral instructions to prepare effective briefs

planning and preparing for the provision of support in legal assistance matters

preparing and processing documents involved in legal assistance matters

preparing legal documents in accordance with identified processes

preparing summaries of cases in accordance with identified processes

undertaking research to support instructing legal officer

undertaking trial/tribunal and posttrial/tribunal administration.

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:

criminal law matters and service discipline proceedings

Defence Force Discipline Act (DFDA) and related legislation

relationship between trials and tribunals, and their impact

relevant legal practices and procedures

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

relevant legal terminology and its use in accordance with organisational procedures

summary hearing/court/tribunal process

trials and service discipline proceedings.

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

Non-essential conditions may be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.