Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) Where an assigned
practitioner briefs another practitioner to perform legal services for an
assisted person, the agent is entitled to receive from the assigned
practitioner the same remuneration as the assigned practitioner would have
received if he or she had not briefed an agent.
(2) An additional fee
being no more than 30% of the fee payable to the assigned practitioner under
these rules may be paid to an agent for legal services where an assigned
practitioner —
(a)
whose office is situate within the metropolitan area necessarily employs as
his or her agent a practitioner whose office is situate outside the
metropolitan area; or
(b)
whose office is situate outside the metropolitan area necessarily employs as
his or her agent a practitioner whose office is situate within the
metropolitan area.
(3) In this rule
metropolitan area means an area within a 65 km radius of the General Post
Office Perth.