LAOL downtime scheduled: Wednesday 7 September

24 August 2022

Planned maintenance

Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable between 7pm and 9pm on Wednesday 7 September.

This is to allow for essential maintenance and upgrade work to our servers.

Apologies for any inconvenience this short period of inaccessibility may cause, as we continually try to minimise disruptions to the service at peak times.

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