https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/special-urgency-expenses-and-property-recovered-or-preserved-circumstances-where-slab-may-not-be-able-to-pay-you/
https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/special-urgency-expenses-and-property-recovered-or-preserved-circumstances-where-slab-may-not-be-able-to-pay-you/
If your client receives legal aid, any expenses must be paid into the Legal Aid Fund at the end of the case. This is a statutory requirement. However, there is no facility for payment of expenses out of the Fund.
If the money paid into the Fund is less than we have paid out, we will seek payment from any contribution or property recovered. If we determine that either of the following two situations applies you do not have to pay in any expenses recovered:
Therefore, we can release any money we have received.
The reasons provided in Regulation 18(7) of the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002 for us not being able to pay are: