Memo · Victims of Crime Support & Compensation
NSW victims support: instructions where support may be reduced or refused
A note of the facts a lawyer needs before advising on a possible reduction or refusal of NSW victims support, using the factors the recognition payment page says s 44 includes.
- Kind
- Memo. An internal or advice memo.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for New South Wales.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a NSW victims support application may be affected by the victim's or the deceased's conduct, or by money already received. The note records the questions. It does not record a drafted account of the violence.
Used for these tasks
- Check a victims' scheme decision against the categories and limits
- Prepare the application to a state victims support scheme
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may list payments and policies already in the documents; the lawyer takes instructions and decides whether s 25 or s 44 is engaged.
AI may
- List insurance payments, judgments and other amounts shown in documents on the file
- Set out the two example factors the government page gives under s 44, as examples only
AI must not
- Must not decide that support will be refused or reduced
- Must not draft the victim's account or an explanation of their conduct
- Must not treat the page's two examples as the whole of s 44
The lawyer checks
- Section 25 and the whole of s 44 have been read, not only the examples on the web page
- Every other payment is identified with its source and whether it relates to the act of violence
- The client has approved any description of conduct that will be put to Victims Services
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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