Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare for the provision of support in legal assistance
- Prepare and process documents involved in legal assistance matters
- Documents are identified, prepared and processed in accordance with legal practices and procedures.
- Incoming documents are checked for completeness and timely delivery, and sender is contacted where insufficient information is provided or deadlines are not honoured.
- Requests for information are reviewed with legal officer and identified documents are retrieved, copied and despatched in accordance with legal practices and procedures.
- Perform research to support legal officer
- Assist legal officer to prepare for legal assistance matter
- Where appropriate, different legal assistance matters are identified.
- Communications from client, police and other authorities, and details of client’s status are communicated to legal officer.
- File is discussed with legal officer and work is planned .
- Availability of legal officers is canvassed and details are forwarded to legal officer to facilitate engagement.