The two things you need our help with regards to Intervention Orders

In our experience people who have been served with an Intervention Order are looking for two things.

1. Legal Advice
2. RepresentationLegal AdviceIf you have been served with an Intervention Order you need to get legal advice.You should be looking for that advice from a law firm like Kenna Law that understands the cost and consequence that you may face if the Intervention Order goes undefended and how the court is likely to regard the accusations made against you.We represent hundreds of clients a year who have been served with Intervention Orders.  Our advice varies depending on their circumstances.While it may be in the solicitor’s interest if you fight your Intervention Order all the way when you meet with one of our team you’ll find that isn’t what drives our advice.  We find out your circumstances and advise you based on the choice that is in your best interest and then act on your instructions.

What are the choices?

• Ignore the order – if you ignore the Intervention Order it will be granted against you without you having a chance to put your side of the story to the court.  We never advise people to ignore an Intervention Order.
• Accept the order – sometimes the circumstances of the events that led up to the Intervention Order, your financial circumstances or the total irrelevance of the person who has placed the order against them means that clients accept the Intervention Order.
• Negotiate an undertaking – an undertaking means that there is no order against you but you promise not to do the things that the Intervention Order prevented you from doing. If you break an undertaking then the Intervention Order is reinstated.
• Amend the order – Intervention Orders are put in place without your knowledge or presence in the court.  Sometimes the story that is told means that an Interim Intervention Order is granted and sometimes it is just an application. Often we find that clients are served by the police with Interim Intervention orders that prevent them from living in their own homes, accessing their business tools and/or information or attending their place of work or education.  We can make an urgent application for the terms of your Interim Order to be modified if you find yourself in this kind of situation.
• Fight the order – If our clients feel that the Intervention Order placed against them is so unreasonable, so unjust or even a case of mistaken identity that there is no option than to fight them all the way through to a final hearing.  It is usually not until the third appearance that we are able to present evidence when you decide to fight an Intervention Order.

Legal Representation

At Kenna Law we use a fixed fee model which means you have the certainty of knowing how much going to court is going to cost.

Magistrate’s Court Mention or Direction Hearings – suburban Magistrates’ Courts   $985.00
Magistrate’s Court Contest Hearings – suburban Magistrates’ Courts                        $1485.00

What’s included in the Kenna Law Fixed Fee?

We hate charging per hour as much as you do so we include all reasonable
time that is spent  defending you in one simple to
understand fixed fee. The fee is equivalent to four hours work by one of
our solicitor advocates and makes us not only one of  the best and most
experienced solicitor advocate firms in Victoria but also the cheapest.
Being cheap doesn’t make us nasty.  We include the following in our
Intervention Order Fixed Fee.

• All phone calls to arrange representation and get an overview on the application.
• GST.
• Email review of all paperwork served on you.  Please scan or take a mobile phone photo of each page served on you or lodged with the court and send to office@kennalaw.com.au or 0413 825 479
• Responses to your emails.
• Court representation on the day for any court within a 1 hour radius
  of our offices in East Bentleigh, Burwood or Lindhurst.  We represent clients in all Victorian courts but travel allowances apply to some regional courts
• The fee for Contests is higher because of the additional work
  required to prepare your defense and includes up to three hours
  preparation

What’s not included?

• Conference with you at our offices for general advice or to prepare answers for further and better particulars when required by the Court.  Conferences with us for up to 90 minutes at our offices  will be $275.00 incl GST.
• Travel to courts more than one hours distance from our offices.  We charge a
  travel allowance for regional courts more than one hour away from our offices.  See our cost disclosure for the current travel allowances.
• Additional necessary time such as watching or listening to hours of recorded content.
• Other types of legal matters that may result from or run alongside
  your Intervention Order matter such as Family Law, Debt Collection etc.