Archive guidance

Legal profession

Accounts guidance	Date published
All current guidance is included in the legal assistance handbooks. Material in this section is for archive purposes only - you should not refer to it for current accounts.

Legal Aid Fees and Taxation Guidelines - note that this is a very large file	1994

Accounts synopsis forms for civil and criminal advice and assistance/ ABWOR	30 May 2007

Accounts synopsis guidance for children's advice and assistance	July 2008

Criminal proceedings accounts synopsis - guidance and examples of new forms in use from 1 April 2008 Visit our forms section for supplementary account versions of the new forms	April 2008

Criminal fixed payments guidance - post-summary criminal legal assistance reform	June 2008

Criminal Accounts Assessment Manual - Fixed Payments	28 March 2002

Criminal Accounts Assessment Manual	11 September 2000

Criminal Legal Aid Fees and Taxation Guidelines	March 1998

Payment of witness fees in criminal legal aid cases

The Scottish Legal Assistance Handbooks are our principal online source for all guidance on legal assistance, and are updated regularly. The Handbooks are provided free of charge. Go to our Handbook section for current and archive versions of the handbooks.

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