New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1979 - SECT 50

50 Panels of private legal practitioners

(1) The Commission may establish panels of suitably qualified and experienced legal practitioners in private practice who have notified the Commission that they are willing to act as legal practitioners for legally assisted persons.

(2) A body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, which provides community legal services is not eligible to be included in a panel, unless the Commission otherwise determines.

(3) A panel may be established according to such criteria as the Commission determines, and publicly notifies or makes available on request, which may include (but are not limited to):

(a) matters generally, or matters of a particular type or class, or

(b) a specified jurisdiction, or

(c) a specified area of the State.