This is the 'medical model' of clinical teaching. As discussed above at paragraphs 61-67. For example, the Family Court has introduced extensive case management guidelines. This will reduce litigants' costs and the length of time involved in resolving disputes. Under the previous funding arrangements legal aid commissions were reimbursed by the Commonwealth for the conduct of these matters.
Commissions are now responsible for managing expensive cases within their individual budgets.
A Collection of Papers presented at an AIJA Conference in Brisbane 3-4 July 1998. Fam LR 1. 33 Family Law Council, Involving and Representing Children in Family Law, August 1996. 34 Statistics provided by legal aid commissions to the Commonwealth show an increase each year for the past three years in the rate of approvals nationally for assistance in family law matters. It should be noted that data provided to the Commonwealth prior to 1997 did not distinguish between State and Commonwealth law matters, and therefore we have made some assumptions about previous years' data. Nor has the table been provided to legal aid commissions for confirmation that the information it contains is correct.