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Legal aid providers: what to expect from the LAA audit process, including peer review and contract compliance audit details.
Information for organisations interested in delivering Housing Loss Prevention Advice Services and Housing and Debt services.
Payments on account in civil cases, inquests, police station remote attendance, mental health tribunals, family hearings, and travel and mileage.
How to tender for contracts to deliver legal services, including crime, civil and telephone advice contracts using the eTendering portal.
High cost contract, schedules and specifications when applying for legal aid in civil high cost cases.
Guidance on the funding of breaches of civil anti-social behaviour injunctions, how to apply and how to get paid.
Contract documents for providers of criminal legal aid services, 2017.
Guidance on the funding of civil contempt, how to apply and how to get paid.
How to appeal a decision made by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) for legal aid funding in high cost civil cases.
Find VHCC arrangements, guidance and VHCC contract documents for organisations and self-employed advocates.
Information about completing means assessment forms and checking that your client has correctly completed the forms.
You should follow the standard file process outlined below when submitting work for online and paper billing.
Civil certificated billing codes and the certificate outcomes checklist: submit a legal aid claim in civil matters.
Guides and videos for prosecutors and defence lawyers on using court technology to present evidence on screens in courtrooms.
Using MI online, you can access, download and print financial statements either for your own office or for the whole firm.
Guidance on submitting your claim in Civil and Family Legal Aid Cases. This covers certificated and controlled work (including legal help escape cases and controlled legal representation)
Information for organisations interested in delivering legal aid under a 2024 Standard Civil Contract.
We are inviting applications from individuals interested in becoming Peer Reviewers.
How to appeal against our assessment findings on individual claims, or a sample of claims, billed to the Legal Aid Agency (LAA).
CLA contract documents for providers of remote legal advice in family, housing, debt, discrimination, and education
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