Appendix 6-Legal Services Expenditure

The Legal Services Directions 2005, issued by the Attorney-General under the Judiciary Act 1903, require Chief Executives of agencies to ensure that their agencies' legal services purchasing, including expenditure, is appropriately recorded and monitored and that, by 30 October each year, the agency makes publicly available records of the legal services expenditure for the previous financial year.

The Tribunals' 2007-08 report is set out below.

Legal services expenditure for the period
1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008

This is a statement of legal services expenditure by the Migration Review Tribunal - Refugee Review Tribunal for the financial year 2007-08, published in compliance with paragraph 11.1(ba) of the Legal Services Directions 2005.

Notes:

1. Internal legal services expenditure includes direct salary costs and indirect salary costs (leave entitlements, superannuation, and other allowances).
2. All figures are exclusive of GST.