Justice Sector Outlook June 2016 [pdf, 889 KB]
...prosecutions. Legal aid expenditure is within appropriation, but higher than recent years Legal aid expenditure for the year to June 2016 was $137.5m, 3% below its appropriation value of $141.9m. Legal aid expenditure is higher than in recent years, as forecast. This is due to: • Decrease in cases allocated to the Public Defence Service, due to resource constraints. • Increase in applications for legal aid, partly due to the increased Police focus on family violence. Legal aid ex...