DEFDPL027 — Provide high-level support on service discipline matters
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What an assessment for DEFDPL027 must cover
29 assessable components: 5 elements (13 performance criteria), 9 performance evidence and 7 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Plan and prepare to provide support
- 1.1Receive high-level service discipline matter and determine if it involves a Summary Authority Hearing or Superior Tribunal matter
- 1.2Analyse and identify high-level legal issues for the matter
2 Clarify legal issues
- 2.1Review and clarify high-level legal issues of matter with instructing legal officer
- 2.2Obtain additional information relevant to matter from stakeholders, as required
- 2.3Outline limitations within scope of the paralegal’s responsibility to stakeholders and establish mutual expectations in accordance with organisational and legal procedures
3 Perform legal research
- 3.1Conduct legal research for matter, as necessary
- 3.2Analyse and document outcomes of legal research in accordance with organisational procedures
4 Prepare legal documents
- 4.1Prepare documents for matter under instruction from instructing legal officer
- 4.2Review documents for matter with instructing legal officer and amend as required
5 Finalise matter
- 5.1Finalise documents in accordance with legal and matter requirements
- 5.2Communicate matter outcomes to stakeholders, as required
- 5.3Update file notes and place outcomes on file in accordance with organisational procedures
- 5.4Store and secure file to meet legal requirements
Performance evidence
- communicating effectively on complex service discipline legal matters
- coordinating with instructing legal officer to prepare for and support high-level service discipline proceedings
- ensuring pre, during and post Summary Authority Hearing or Superior Tribunal administration is completed in accordance with legal and operational procedures
- filing and maintaining records for service discipline law matters in accordance with Defence policy
- preparing legal documents to support complex service discipline legal matters
- preparing outcomes of cases in high-level legal matters for stakeholders, as required
- undertaking analysis of information to determine status and value of the matter
- undertaking and documenting complex research to support instructing legal officer
- updating all records, storing and securing files in accordance with legal and record keeping requirements, upon finalisation
Knowledge evidence
- complex discipline law legal practices and procedures, and legal and military justice entities and their interrelatedness in criminal law matters and service discipline proceedings
- legal terminology relevant to high-level service discipline legal matters and trials and tribunals
- records management in accordance with Defence policy
- relationship between trials and tribunals, and potential impact on legal proceedings
- relevant legal process, documents, exhibits and witnesses, and stages involved in pre-, during and post Summary Authority Hearing or Superior Tribunal
- relevant manuals and legislation
- service discipline proceedings, and their relevance to paralegal operational procedures within the scope of the supported legal office
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Questions about assessing DEFDPL027
What does an assessment tool for DEFDPL027 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for DEFDPL027 needs to address all 29 unit components: 5 elements with 13 performance criteria, 9 performance evidence requirements, 7 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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Related units
- DEFDPL015 — Address complex legal and ethical issues in a Defence environment
- DEFDPL016 — Conduct legal research
- DEFDPL018 — Manage and analyse a legal matter file
- DEFDPL019 — Obtain information from a client
- DEFDPL023 — Provide high-level support on administrative law matters
- DEFDPL024 — Provide high-level support on criminal law matters
- DEFDPL025 — Provide high-level support on legal assistance matters
- DEFDPL026 — Provide high-level support on operations law matters
- DEFDPL028 — Provide paralegal support across Defence legal matters and tasks
- DEFDPL029 — Provide support in criminal law matters
- DEFDPL030 — Provide support in Defence administrative law matters
- DEFDPL031 — Provide support in service discipline law matters
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