Scottish Legal Assistance Handbooks

Legal profession

SCOTTISH LEGAL ASSISTANCE HANDBOOKS

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 - read more about them.

If you wish to use them, please ensure you have sent us a subscription so that we can update you when changes are made.

Use the new online Handbooks:

Civil legal assistance - latest edition 14 May 2008
Children's legal assistance - latest edition April 2008
This updated version now includes guidance on safeguarders and curators ad litem.

Legislative edition - latest edition April 2008

Criminal legal assistance - draft Handbook - 31 October 2007
Our new Criminal Handbook contains all guidance on criminal legal assistance applications, together with all legislation for criminal legal assistance. We are publishing the Handbook as a draft and welcome any comments or queries on it :

Archive editions

Useful links

You may also find it useful to obtain Scottish legislation, from the OPSI site. The site contains the full text of all Acts of the Scottish Parliament, the Explanatory Notes to the Acts of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Statutory Instruments.

Your comments

We are keen to hear your views on the Handbooks. We hope you will make suggestions on any topics or issues that could be added to our guidance, or give us your ideas for how to make it easier to use to suit your working practice. We will be able to respond to feedback on a regular basis through our updates. Our website will offer several easy ways to enable you to suggest changes:

Questions

if you have any questions on subscribing, please contact our Communications Department by emailing handbook@slab.org.uk