Overseas Practitioners
Overseas Practitioners
To be admitted to the legal profession in an Australian jurisdiction on the basis of qualifications
obtained outside Australia, an applicant must usually have:
(a) completed a tertiary course leading to legal practice in the applicant's home jurisdiction,
which is substantially equivalent to a three-year full-time law course that leads to admission
to the legal profession in Australia; and
(b) successfully completed subjects, either as part of that course or otherwise, which are
substantially equivalent to the areas of study which Australian applicants must successfully
complete before being admitted to the legal profession in Australia; and
(c) acquired and demonstrated an appropriate understanding of, and competence in, certain
skills, practice areas and values, which are substantially equivalent to the skills, practice
areas and values which Australian applicants must acquire and demonstrate an
understanding of and competence in, before being admitted to the legal profession in
Australia; and
(d) undertaken, or been exempted from, the International English Language Testing System
Academic Module (IELTS) test within two years before seeking admission, and obtained
minimum scores of 8.0 for writing, 7.5 for speaking and 7.0 for reading and listening, in the
components of that test.