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Civil handbook - Table of contents
Part 2 - Introduction to legal assistance and a summary of procedures
Part 3 - Advice and Assistance
Part 4 - Civil Legal Aid
Part 5 - Advice and Assistance accounts
Part 6 - Civil legal Aid accounts
Part 6a - Ruling on appearance of counsel without an agent
Part 7 - Clawback and expenses
Part 8 - Contempt of court
Part 9 - Contacting us and complaints
Part 10 - Appendices
Part 11 - Legislation
Civil Legal Assistance Handbook - Introduction
This Handbook contains guidance to the legal profession about advice and assistance and legal aid for civil matters. As it is intended mainly for solicitors, where we use the term “you”, this means the solicitor acting in a legal aid case.
registration, compliance and quality assurance
all aspects of applying for advice and assistance and legal aid, and procedures after a grant or refusal, including:
amended (November 2010) guidance on reasonableness and probable cause in Part III at paragraphs 3.7, 3.23 and 3.24
amended (November 2010) guidance on special urgency (part IV paragraph 6.1)
new (October 2010) chapter on financial verification in advice and assistance cases, setting out the documentary evidence you should get from your client to satisfy yourself they are eligible for advice and assistance or ABWOR – includes a link to new client online declaration form – see Part III, chapter 2A
new (September 2010) guidance on applications for civil legal aid to defend in mortgage rights proceedings – Home Owner and Debtor Protection (Scotland) Act 2010 (Part IV paragraph 4.114-4.116)
increased limit for Hunter v Hanley reports in medical negligence advice and assistance templates (templates 54 and 55)
accounts, including advice and assistance accounts guidance
contacting us, and complaints
legislation relating to civil advice and assistance, legal aid and contempt of court, as amended (up-to-date as at 1 November 2010, and including the new Civil Legal Aid for Defamation or Verbal Injury Proceedings (Scotland) Direction 2010, changes made by the Advice and Assistance and Civil Legal Aid (Transfer of Tribunal Functions) (No. 1) and (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2010)
For a full list of changes since the last issue of the handbook, click here
using Legal Aid Online, click here
the Scottish Legal Aid Board and its work, you may want to refer to our Annual Report.
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