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Reporting on legal services expenditure
Paragraph 11.1 (ba) of the Legal Services Directions requires the accountable authority of PGPA agencies to ensure that 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.
AFSA’s legal services expenditure
|
Expenditure Type |
2019-20 |
2020-21 |
2021-22 |
2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
External Legal expenditure |
$1,780,685 |
$2,047,985 |
$1,555,109 |
$1,544,372 |
|
Internal legal expenditure |
$1,080,422 |
$1,140,885 |
$1,609,546 |
$1,651,062 |
|
Total legal expenditure |
$2,861,107 |
$3,188,870 |
$3,164,655 |
$3,195,434 |
Explanatory Note
The above expenditure figures include legal purchases made by the Official Trustee.
AFSA’s historical legal service expenditure
|
Expenditure type |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
External legal expenditure |
$414,522 |
$730,903.25 |
$666,328.00 |
$868,546 |
|
Internal legal expenditure |
$231,843 |
$144,347.81 |
$227,853.93 |
$359,722 |
|
Total legal expenditure |
$646,365 |
$875,251.06 |
$894,181.93 |
$1,228,268 |
Historical figures – explanatory note
Historical figures do not include legal purchases made by the Official Trustee.