https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/stage-reporting/
The reporting process (whereby you send us a report on Legal Aid Online when the prospects of success in a case reduce):
In any stage report that you send to us you can provide reasons why you consider the grant should continue even though prospects have reduced. This could include:
You can ask for stage payments but you do not need to submit a stage report with such a request. We will consider the stage payment request without any reference to stage reporting.
Where a case is sisted you do not have to submit a stage report.
You must provide a stage report when you are given, or have information, that suggests the prospects of success in the case and/or the prospects of recovery have reduced since legal aid was granted.
It is your duty, along with counsel and your client, to report any changes in circumstance to us affecting the assumptions on which we granted legal aid. You should immediately inform us of any material change in circumstances, whether they are financial or otherwise [Regulation 23 the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002], about:
You are not precluded from reporting such circumstances because of any privilege arising out of the relationship between you and your client [Regulation 23(4) Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 2002].
As a result of these changes:
Remember that you must always tell us if your client’s:
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