Special urgency

Special urgency

• Cover for work done before a decision on the legal aid application: the nature and types of special urgency
• Special urgency: satisfying yourself that a client is financially eligible
• List of circumstances in which you may undertake urgent work without prior approval
• Arrangements for collection of your client’s contributions in special urgency: the client mandate
• Assessment of special urgency applications: tests applied by us
• Special urgency guidance: family cases
• Rejected or continued applications for civil legal aid: limited circumstance in which special urgency is available
• The importance of providing reasons for special urgency in the body of your application
• Special urgency, expenses, and property recovered or preserved: circumstances where we may not be able to pay you
• Status of your client under special urgency: contributions and requirement to provide financial information
• Special urgency and extension or amendments to existing legal aid
• Special urgency and sanction applications: usual sanction procedure applies
• Special urgency and undertaking necessary collateral work: timing issues
• Special urgency work’s status: issues your client to be aware where it is not a grant of legal aid
• Special urgency situations where the client does not comply with our requests for information: potential effects
• Special urgency: procedure for exemption from court fees