Automatic availability of criminal legal aid

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