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ABWOR is only available for children’s hearings and certain other specified court hearings, tribunals and statutory inquiries.
ABWOR is not available for:
This is the case even where ABWOR has been granted to your client for any associated children’s hearing.
Advice and assistance can be provided to advise and assist your client both before and after such a meeting has taken place. We will not generally grant an increase in advice and assistance for you to attend such a meeting.
However, we may consider granting an increase to attend a meeting if you can show special circumstances such as:
Increases in authorised expenditure
This page provides information on when increases in children’s cases are needed. It covers when increases may be needed in: an initial Children’s Hearing; at a criminal advice hearing; at an adoption advice hearing; in relation to Child Protection Orders and related hearings and Part 4 orders under the Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019. The sections set out the levels of increase generally available and the circumstances in which they may be needed.
Increases in authorised expenditure
This page provides information on increases for the use of counsel within children’s A&A or ABWOR. It covers the limited scenarios in which the use of counsel under A&A is likely to be permitted (Opinions and consultations); the factors SLAB considers when assessing increase requests for counsel’s Opinion (including for appeals); the use of senior counsel; whether an increase is available for counsel to draft court documents; and the use of counsel in ABWOR cases.