Legal Costs

Calculating Your Legal Costs – Scale of Fees

How lawyers charge legal costs can be complicated.  Legal costs can also be very expensive.

Unless a specific arrangement is entered into, barristers accepting a direct access brief through this site will agree to deal with the issue of expense by using the fixed scale of costs published on this site.

The advantage to a lay client is that solicitors fees can be bypassed and barristers fees can be calculated in advance with a degree of precision by using the scale.

Publishing this scale is not an offer to accept a direct access brief.

Civil Matters

Scale of Fees for Civil Matters $1 - $150,000

Criminal and Regulatory Matters

Scale of Fees for Magistrates Court Criminal Matters

• Magistrates Court
• Traffic Matters
• QCAT Regulatory Matters

Family Matters

Domestic Violence Applications

These fees are applicable for 2013 and will be reviewed each year.