https://www.slab.org.uk/news/legal-aid-applicant-fined-after-pleading-guilty-to-fraud-2/
https://www.slab.org.uk/news/legal-aid-applicant-fined-after-pleading-guilty-to-fraud-2/
14 February 2019
David Delargy pled guilty to legal aid fraud and was fined £330 in Edinburgh Sheriff Court last week.
The applicant was prosecuted for failing in his obligations to disclose information about his financial circumstances in a civil legal aid application.
He did not tell us that he owned a property other than the one he lived in and repeated this failure by not declaring ownership of another property when he completed a second financial form.
He also found employment on two occasions and did not report these changes to us. When he did contact us to tell us about a change of address he did not disclose that he was now living with a partner.
The total cost of civil legal aid in this case was £3,872.64 and we have recovered £900 to date. The full amount of legal aid will be repaid in instalments.