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Evidence Guide: DEFDPL007 - Provide high-level support on legal assistance matters

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DEFDPL007 - Provide high-level support on legal assistance matters

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

Plan and prepare to provide high-level support on legal assistance support

  1. Receive high-level task instructions
  2. Analyse task requirements and identify task legal issues
Receive high-level task instructions

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Analyse task requirements and identify task legal issues

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Clarify legal issues

  1. Review and clarify task legal issues with instructing legal officer
  2. Obtain additional information as required to address task requirements
  3. Clearly outline paralegal legal limits of responsibility to stakeholders and establish clear responsibilities with client in accordance with operational procedures
Review and clarify task legal issues with instructing legal officer

Completed
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Obtain additional information as required to address task requirements

Completed
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Clearly outline paralegal legal limits of responsibility to stakeholders and establish clear responsibilities with client in accordance with operational procedures

Completed
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Perform legal research

  1. Conduct legal research to meet task requirements
  2. Analyse and document information gathered in accordance with task requirements
Conduct legal research to meet task requirements

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Analyse and document information gathered in accordance with task requirements

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Prepare legal documents

  1. Prepare required legal documents for task consultation with instructing legal officer
  2. Review prepared legal documents with instructing legal officer and amend as required
Prepare required legal documents for task consultation with instructing legal officer

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Review prepared legal documents with instructing legal officer and amend as required

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Finalise matter

  1. Finalise legal documents in accordance with task and organisational requirements
  2. Communicate task outcomes to stakeholders, as required
  3. Update file notes and place outcomes on file in accordance with operating guidelines
  4. Appropriately store and secure task file
Finalise legal documents in accordance with task and organisational requirements

Completed
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Communicate task outcomes to stakeholders, as required

Completed
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Update file notes and place outcomes on file in accordance with operating guidelines

Completed
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Appropriately store and secure task file

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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

Plan and prepare to provide high-level support on legal assistance support

1.1

Receive high-level task instructions

1.2

Analyse task requirements and identify task legal issues

2

Clarify legal issues

2.1

Review and clarify task legal issues with instructing legal officer

2.2

Obtain additional information as required to address task requirements

2.3

Clearly outline paralegal legal limits of responsibility to stakeholders and establish clear responsibilities with client in accordance with operational procedures

3

Perform legal research

3.1

Conduct legal research to meet task requirements

3.2

Analyse and document information gathered in accordance with task requirements

4

Prepare legal documents

4.1

Prepare required legal documents for task consultation with instructing legal officer

4.2

Review prepared legal documents with instructing legal officer and amend as required

5

Finalise matter

5.1

Finalise legal documents in accordance with task and organisational requirements

5.2

Communicate task outcomes to stakeholders, as required

5.3

Update file notes and place outcomes on file in accordance with operating guidelines

5.4

Appropriately store and secure task file

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

Plan and prepare to provide high-level support on legal assistance support

1.1

Receive high-level task instructions

1.2

Analyse task requirements and identify task legal issues

2

Clarify legal issues

2.1

Review and clarify task legal issues with instructing legal officer

2.2

Obtain additional information as required to address task requirements

2.3

Clearly outline paralegal legal limits of responsibility to stakeholders and establish clear responsibilities with client in accordance with operational procedures

3

Perform legal research

3.1

Conduct legal research to meet task requirements

3.2

Analyse and document information gathered in accordance with task requirements

4

Prepare legal documents

4.1

Prepare required legal documents for task consultation with instructing legal officer

4.2

Review prepared legal documents with instructing legal officer and amend as required

5

Finalise matter

5.1

Finalise legal documents in accordance with task and organisational requirements

5.2

Communicate task outcomes to stakeholders, as required

5.3

Update file notes and place outcomes on file in accordance with operating guidelines

5.4

Appropriately store and secure task file

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.

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.

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.