Policy and decision-makers’ guidance (DMG) published for assessing financial eligibility for Civil Legal Aid

We’ve published our policy and decision-makers’ guidance (DMG) for assessing financial eligibility in relation to the following subjects:

• applications by a person acting in a representative, fiduciary, official or other capacity – Regulation 14(1)
• computation period for disposable capital
• Regulation 12 (Deprivation or conversion of resources).

Our approach to these subjects is not changing.

The policies and guidance on our GALA website are intended primarily for our decision-makers for:

• assessing the factors we take into consideration in applications and accounts
• detailing the information we take into account and the decisions we take as a result of that information.

As part of the GALA project, our existing legal aid guidance for solicitors on the SLAB website is reviewed and updated, as appropriate.

It remains the primary legal aid reference for solicitors and has links to published policy statements or decision-makers’ guidance, if you need that at any time.

More information

Please contact Kim Blance, Civil Finance Senior Specialist

Telephone 0131 240 2091

Email blanceki@slab.org.uk