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Automatic availability of criminal legal aid

Page contents:

  • The court duty solicitor or solicitor of choice (appointed solicitor)
  • The duty solicitor
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  • Preliminary pleas
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Automatic availability of criminal legal aid

  • Availability of automatic criminal legal aid
  • Automatic legal aid for an identification parade
  • Automatic legal aid for solemn proceedings
  • Automatic legal aid for summary proceedings, duty solicitors and appointed solicitors
  • Automatic legal aid for cases involving mental health issues, pleas in bar of trials, mental health proof, examination of facts, section 62 or 63 appeals
  • Automatic legal aid for new prosecution for the same or similar offence
  • Automatic legal aid for cases involving sexual offences, child witnesses, vulnerable witnesses and the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018
  • Intimation form for automatic criminal legal aid

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91 Haymarket Terrace
Edinburgh
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EH12 5HE

DX555250, Edinburgh 30

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