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Guidance: Legal aid guidance

Legal Aid Agency

September 3
23:00 2023

Civil

Early Asylum Billing: A Practical Guide (PDF, 115 KB, 1 page)

Remote Family Hearings: updated ways of working (PDF, 274 KB, 3 pages) details certain aspects of legal aid such as:

  • prior authorities (including authorities for counsel and experts in Children Act cases)
  • funding for cases outside England and Wales

Paying for your civil legal aid (PDF, 510 KB, 6 pages) helps clients with civil legal problems.

Evidence requirements for private family law matters guidance (PDF, 438 KB, 35 pages)

Providing advice to immigration detainees in prison (PDF, 142 KB, 6 pages)

Lord Chancellors guidance

Lord Chancellor's guidance (under section 4 of LASPO) (May 2023) (PDF, 509 KB, 64 pages)

Lord Chancellor's guidance on determining financial eligibility for certificated work (August 2023) (PDF, 918 KB, 119 pages)

Lord Chancellor's guidance - exceptional case funding (inquests) (PDF, 210 KB, 8 pages)

Lord Chancellor's guidance - exceptional case funding (non-inquests) (PDF, 327 KB, 21 pages)

Notice to the Director of Legal Aid Casework: Lord Chancellors guidance on exceptional funding (non inquests) (PDF, 10.3 KB, 1 page)

Post-judgment notice to Director of Legal Aid Casework (DLAC): IS v DLAC and The Lord Chancellor: ECF Guidance (non-inquests) (PDF, 23.1 KB, 1 page)

Lord Chancellor's guide to determining financial eligibility for controlled work and family mediation (September 2023) (PDF, 427 KB, 47 pages)

Costs assessment guidance

The costs assessment guidance has been amended to take account of the UKs exit from the European Union.

There are 3 versions of the costs assessment guidance: one for use with the 2010 Standard Civil Contracts, one for use with the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Standard Civil Contracts and the third for use with the 2018 Standard Civil Contract.

For use with the 2018 contract:

For use with the 2010 contract:

For use with the 2013, 2014 and 2015 contract:

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