Index
Children's Court Bench Book
Part A - Introduction
1 - Overview
2 - Structure and Divisions
3 - Acts and subordinate legislation
4 - Open justice and prohibition on publication
5 - General procedural provisions
Part B - Family Division
6 - Jurisdiction of the Family Division
7 - Parental responsibility and major long-term issues
8 - Principles in the Family Division
9 - The Department of Health and Human Services
10 - Procedure in Family Division
11 - Legal representation
11.1 – Duty to ensure representation of a child
11.2 - Child’s parents
11.3 - Victoria Legal Aid
11.4 - When a legal practitioner can represent more than one child
11.5 - The Child Protection Litigation Office
11.6 - The Attorney-General
11.7 - Practice Direction No 2 of 2015
12 - Hearings
13 - Orders in the Family Division
14 - Service of applications and documents
15 - Case planning by the Secretary
16 - Aboriginal children
17 - Reports to the Family Division
18 - The intersection of child protection and family laws
19 - Interstate transfer of child protection orders / proceedings
20 - Costs orders in the Family Division
21 - Specialist courts and programs in the Family Division
22 - Intervention Orders and Vexatious Proceedings
Part C - Criminal Division
23 - Jurisdiction of the Criminal Division
24 - Commencement of proceedings
25 - Legal representation
26 - Custody and bail
27 - Proceedings in the Criminal Division
28 - Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997
29 - Sentencing in the Children’s Court
30 - Youth Parole Board
31 - Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004
32 - Enforcement of infringements in the Children’s Court
Part D - Other Divisions
33 - Children’s Koori Court (Criminal Division)
34 - Neighbourhood Justice Division
Part E - Children's Court Clinic and Court services
35 - Children’s Court Clinic
36 - Court services
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