Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) will not normally make a grant of legal assistance in any of the following:
- Criminal law matters:
- court applications for stays (see Criminal law guideline 8)
- applications to a court for an order that VLA make a grant of assistance.
- State family matters:
- applications to revoke or vary orders if there are no proceedings.
- Commonwealth family law matters:
- change of name applications
- preparation and filing of consent orders only.
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