Civil guidance

Guidance for the legal profession about advice and assistance and legal aid for civil matters.

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Advice and Assistance

Civil Legal Aid

VAT

Value Added Tax (VAT) – how it is applied on legal aid accounts

Accounts common queries

Accounts: Common queries in relation to the preparation and submission of legal aid accounts

Civil legal assistance accounts

Introduction to Civil accounts - detailed fees
Fees
- Table of fees
Guidance on chargeable work - detailed fees
Travel - detailed fees
- Travel
Outlays
- Outlays
Guidance for immigration and asylum
- Guidance for immigration and asylum practitioners
Civil Tables of Fees, mixing blocks and details, Sheriff Appeal court and time limits for submitting accounts
Block fees: sheriff court summary cause
- Schedule 2 Chapter III Parts 1 and 2: Accounts in respect of summary cause proceedings
Block fees: sheriff court executry business
- Schedule 2 Chapter IV: Accounts in respect of executry business
Block fees: sheriff court proceedings (no action raised or undefended)
Block fees: sheriff court proceedings (defended)
Additional fees and provision for exceptional cases in schedule 2A and schedule 6 cases
Interim payment procedure for fees and/or outlays
- Procedure for submitting interim claims on or after 1 October 2022
Ruling on appearance of counsel without an agent
- Dean of Faculty ruling on appearance of counsel without an agent: relaxation of previous rules and implications
Counsel fees
- Introduction to counsel fees
- Schedule 4 Counsel's fees
  - Table of fees
- Guidance on chargeable work
- Travel
  - Fees for travel
- Accommodation and subsistence
  - Payment of necessary accommodation and associated subsistence per day

Clawback and expenses

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Related Legal Aid Policy and Decision-makers’ Guidance

Civil policy statements and Decision-makers' Guidance

Civil guidance

Advice and Assistance

Availability of advice and assistance

Advice and Assistance application procedures

Verification of financial eligibility for advice and assistance or ABWOR

ABWOR in civil proceedings

Increases in authorised expenditure under advice and assistance and ABWOR employment of third parties

Increases for different types of case under A&A and ABWOR

Civil Legal Aid

After a grant, and prior approval needed

Assessing probable cause and reasonableness

Availability of Civil legal aid and application procedures

Changes of circumstances and withdrawal of legal aid

Cost limits

Financial assessment

Merits of different types of case

Modified application procedures

Special urgency

High cost and complex cases

Reporting requirement: whether or not submitting a claim on the Fund

VAT

Accounts common queries

Civil legal assistance accounts

Introduction to Civil accounts - detailed fees

Fees

Guidance on chargeable work - detailed fees

Travel - detailed fees

Outlays

Guidance for immigration and asylum

Civil Tables of Fees, mixing blocks and details, Sheriff Appeal court and time limits for submitting accounts

Block fees: sheriff court summary cause

Block fees: sheriff court executry business

Block fees: sheriff court proceedings (no action raised or undefended)

Block fees: sheriff court proceedings (defended)

Additional fees and provision for exceptional cases in schedule 2A and schedule 6 cases

Interim payment procedure for fees and/or outlays

Ruling on appearance of counsel without an agent

Counsel fees

Introduction to counsel fees

Schedule 4 Counsel's fees

Guidance on chargeable work

Travel

Accommodation and subsistence

Clawback and expenses

A&A - clawback and regulation 16(3)

Expenses

Property recovered or preserved in civil legal aid

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