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If your client is charged, legal aid may pay for some or all of the costs of legal representation in court. Find the specific guidance here.
How solicitors can set out the reason why it would be unreasonable for the defendant to pay the full costs.
List of providers able to carry out legal aid immigration work in the south west of England.
Criminal Legal Aid Manual updated to explain the process for applications for partially convicted defendants to pay a proportion of their costs.
Check timescales for LAA to process your work (for example, civil applications and bills).
Follow this guidance when claiming for work undertaken under the Prohibition of Cross-Examination In Person Qualified Legal Representative (QLR) Scheme.
Check timescales for the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) to process your work (eg prior authority application, graduated fee claims).
Information about legal aid providers by category of law.
Legal aid providers: what to expect from the LAA audit process, including peer review and contract compliance audit details.
Information for organisations interested in delivering legal aid under a 2024 Standard Civil Contract.
How to work out financial eligibility for legal aid: income and capital means testing, passporting and the civil legal aid calculator.
Forms and guidance to apply for legal aid in civil and family cases, as well as certificates, notices, proceeding codes, and judicial review.
Internal LAA process for managing high profile cases.
Civil applications: checklist for new applications, proceedings codes including wordings, limitation codes, borderline cases.
Duty solicitors rotas, lists, standard crime contract 2022 and contact details.
These documents supplement the quarterly legal aid statistics bulletin by providing a comprehensive guide to the statistics, data and how to use them.
These data files are the source for the key statistics on activity in the legal aid system for England and Wales in .csv (Comma delimited) format.
These reports present the key statistics on activity in the legal aid system for England and Wales.
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