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Legal aid guidance
Civil Guidance
Civil Legal Aid
Availability of Civil legal aid and application procedures
Page contents:
What are other rights or facilities?
What do I need include in an application if my client can’t access these?
Availability of Civil legal aid and application procedures
Definition of civil legal aid
Applications by corporate or unincorporated bodies and sole traders
Courts and tribunals in which civil legal aid is available
Proceeding for which civil legal aid is not (or only partially) available: ‘excepted proceedings’
Civil legal aid: statutory tests for applications
Other rights or facilities
Civil legal aid for matters outwith Scotland
What date is legal aid effective from?
The essential components of a civil legal aid application: forms, statutory statements, declaration
Civil legal aid and the role of opponents
Civil legal aid applications: statements and other documents we need
Rejection of civil legal aid applications: consequences of missing information
Civil legal aid applications by someone unable to sign or suffering from a mental disorder
Civil legal aid applications by person resident outwith the UK
Civil legal aid application by or on behalf of children: assessing ‘general understanding’ of instructing a solicitor
Our power to modify or impose conditions on grants of legal aid
Refusal of legal aid applications
Applications for civil legal aid for proceedings where we are a party
Disputing information: what to send us if you are acting on behalf of your client who is the opponent
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