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  1. Legal Aid Practice Standards [pdf, 487 KB]

    Practice Standards for Legal Aid Providers September 2016 Contents General Practice Standards ................................................................................................ 3 General Principles ............................................................................................................ 4 General Responsibilities to Clients .................................................................................... 5 Legal Aid Funding ........

  2. Legal aid criminal defence lawyers: Changes to payment system

    21 June 2013 The Legal Services Commissioner, Nigel Fyfe, has today brought in new guidelines on how legal aid is paid to criminal defence lawyers for certain cases.    The guidelines replace the Secretary of Justice’s Criminal Fixed Fees and Complex Cases Policy and Procedures and will apply from Monday 24 June. Mr Fyfe said the guidelines were an interim solution. “The new guidelines clarify when and for what reasons legal aid payments to criminal defence lawyers can be amended. “Unde...

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  4. Set up automatic payments to repay my legal aid

    You can make regular payments towards your legal aid debt by: setting up an automatic payment from your bank account agreeing to payments coming directly from your wages or benefit. Pay by automatic payment from your bank account If you have discussed a suitable payment plan with Legal Aid Debt, they will send you an automatic payment form. This form includes all the details you need. Take this form to your bank to set up your regular payments. If you want to set up the automatic payments your...

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  5. Audit shows legal aid lawyers are delivering high quality services

    People who receive legal aid are getting high quality service from their lawyers. Every year, quality and value audits are carried out on legal aid lawyers. Findings from the latest audit of 76 lawyers are published in the report High quality legal aid service: Practice themes from 2015-16 audits.  It rated 86% of lawyers audited as providing service that was acceptable or above, a score that has been steadily improving from 77% four years ago. Ministry of Justice National Service Delivery Grou...

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  6. Do you need to pay back your legal aid?

    Legal aid is government funding to pay for a lawyer for people who cannot afford one, and need one in the interests of justice. People who get legal aid may have to repay part or all of their legal aid costs. Do I need to make repayments? Legal aid is considered a loan. You may have to repay some or all of your legal aid, depending on how much you earn, what property you own and whether you receive any money or property as a result of your case. The information you give on your application form...

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  10. Criminal legal aid assignments - information & criminal case reports

    Criminal assignments report The assignment reports show all criminal legal aid assignments made for the period. It includes preferred, reassignments and rotational assignments. The report is broken down by Provider Approval Level (PAL). This report should not be used to compare rotational assignments between providers. The Public Defence Service is assigned 50% of all rotational assignments for the courts in which they operate. Criminal case assignment report for 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 Crim...

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