Solicitor updates

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Children's

New Regulations: extending children’s duty scheme to cover movement restriction condition hearings; amending counsel’s fees for accommodation and subsistence and introducing fee for written submissions in criminal first instance proceedings

25 April 2024

Update on changes from the Legal Aid (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (legislation.gov.uk), which come into force on 30 April 2024

Legal Aid Online

LAOL downtime scheduled: Tuesday 30 April, 5.30pm-7pm

22 April 2024

Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable from 5.30pm to 7pm on Tuesday 30 April for deployment and upgrades.

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Solicitor Nicola Loughran excluded from providing legal aid

8 April 2024

SLAB's Section 31 Committee has ordered that Nicola Loughran, of Loughran and Co Solicitors, Glasgow, be excluded from the provision of legal aid

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Updates to Keycards for 2024-25

4 April 2024

Details of updates to legal aid keycards with Dependants’ disposable income allowances increased, effective from Monday 8 April 2024.

Civil

Changes to allowances for the Civil financial eligibility test

21 March 2024

Information on changes when assessing eligibility for civil legal aid - effective for applications received or with a computation start date on or after 8 April

Children's

Upcoming research with recipients of Children’s legal assistance

19 March 2024

We’ve commissioned independent research to explore the experience of children’s legal assistance and having a solicitor present at Children’s panel hearings.

Civil

Peer reviewers wanted for Civil Legal Aid Quality Assurance Sub-Committee (QAC)

14 February 2024

Solicitors and non-solicitors with an interest in civil legal aid and regulation are invited to join the Civil Legal Aid Quality Assurance Sub-Committee (QAC)

Civil

Policies and decision-makers’ guidance (DMG) for clawback in Advice and Assistance published

8 February 2024

We’ve published the next release of policies and decision-makers’ guidance (DMG) for clawback in Advice and Assistance as part of our GALA project.

Civil

Policies and guidance published for assessing income in civil financial assessment

25 January 2024

We’ve published our policies and decision-makers’ guidance (DMG) for assessing income in Civil Legal Aid as part of our GALA project

Civil

UPDATED: New simplified application process for certain unopposed Guardianship orders under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, and reminder on the process to ask us to dispense with or postpone intimation to an opponent

18 January 2024

Following solicitor feedback we have introduced a simplified application process for legal aid applications for a Guardianship order under one of five sections

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