Your help needed tackling delays to start of children’s hearings
9 October 2019
Find out about some of the steps that have been taken to improve the running of Children's Hearings and how you can help.
Civil
VACANCIES: Civil Casework Solicitors, CLAO
1 October 2019
Find out about three vacancies in the Civil Legal Assistance Office for enthusiastic social welfare solicitors.
Legal Aid Online
Improvements to Legal Aid Online driven by first round of solicitor feedback
29 August 2019
Learn about and view screenshots of the improvements to Legal Aid Online.
All solicitor updates
Payment dates over August Bank Holiday
21 August 2019
Information on how the Bank Holiday on 26 August will affect BACS payments to the profession.
All solicitor updates
Changes to how we report our performance
14 August 2019
Find out how we have changed the way we report on our performance.
Children's
Change to Children’s ABWOR assessment procedure
4 July 2019
With effect from Monday 8 July we will no longer apply a hold to a request for ABWOR.
Children's
New format Children’s duty plans for 2019-20 published
4 July 2019
Instead of weekly slots being allocated to individual firms we have now listed alphabetically the firms that have selected each geographical area.
Legal Aid Online
Block move/transfer cases option added to Legal Aid Online
18 April 2019
This update contains information about a new ‘Block solicitor transfer/firm moves’ option that will go live on Wednesday 24 April.
Legal Aid Online
Option to refer account to Edinburgh/local agent added to Legal Aid Online
16 April 2019
An Edinburgh/local agent function will be available in Court of Session cases if you provided the Edinburgh agent details in the CIV/SOL application and these h
Legal Aid Online
New restricted access option on LAOL for law accountants
11 April 2019
We have now developed a third party access solution allowing you to restrict access for law accountants to specified cases only.