Grants Online

Legal Aid WA has an online web application for lodging applications for legal aid, requests for extensions and tax invoices electronically. This process is referred to as Grants Online.

Grants Online enables practitioners to deal with Legal Aid via a web-based application over the Internet. The benefits of using Grants Online are:

• Faster application turnaround
• Easier communication with Legal Aid (electronic versus standard postal methods)
• Dedicated assessor (firms will deal with same assessor for all applications)
• Ease of submitted tax invoices electronically and timely payment
• Updated progress of applications available on line
• Easy to use forms and checklists
• Simplified means test (if your client is receiving a Centrelink Benefit they do not have to complete all the information about their income)

Private firms are being connected to the new system on a weekly basis. Since November 2003 over 87 private firms have been connected to the Grants Online system.

Grants Online is able to accept applications for legal assistance for all three areas of law. Applications that are lodged for criminal and family law matters require a checklist to be completed. There are three checklists for family law covering urgent, ADR and non-urgent requests for aid. There are no checklists for civil law matters.

Legal Aid is committed to providing a faster more efficient service to practitioners. With the Grants Online system Legal Aid is embracing new technologies that provide us with the means to communicate electronically with private practitioners and provide a greater service to clients.

If you would like to know more about the Grants Online process please email grantsonline@legalaid.wa.gov.au.

To log in to Grants Online click on the following link: https://www.legalaid.wa.gov.au/grantsonline

Legal content last updated: July 2007