Welcome to the Victorian Legal Admissions Board's short video outlining the admissions process.
Once all documents are submitted and approved by the board for your application for a compliance certificate, you will receive an email to pay the admission fee via a secure online link. Once paid, you will be issued a compliance certificate.
There are two options of admission available to you, by paper admission or in person at an admission ceremony.
If you choose paper admission, you will receive instructions on how to file a Form A Affidavit. You are not required to attend the court.
Compliance certificates are issued each month for paper admissions. The date of your admission is unknown until the court makes the order each month. You'll be notified by email when you have been admitted as an Australian lawyer.
In approximately six to eight weeks, the admission order will be posted to you. If you choose admission in person and your application is complete, you will be allocated to the next available ceremony.
Due to high demand, ceremonies can fill up months in advance, and we are unable to reserve any places.
A compliance certificate will be issued three to four weeks prior to your admission. The exact date and time of your admission will then be confirmed.
You are required to attend the Supreme Court for your admission. You must brief an Australian lawyer to move your admission, and they should have a copy of your compliance certificate. Your mover does not need to hold a current practising certificate, however, must be admitted to an Australian Supreme Court.
Practitioners moving admissions must be appropriately robed in gown, bar jacket and jabot. You must dress in professional business attire. The court has instructed that there is a strict limit of two guests per applicant, in addition to your mover.
The admission ceremony generally takes 30 to 45 minutes. At the end of the admission ceremony, you will sign the Supreme Court roll and the Prothonotary will hand you your admission order.
After you have been admitted as an Australian lawyer, you may apply to the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner for a practising certificate. You must hold a current practising certificate to practice law in Australia.
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