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FAQs - Using LAMS

Topics:
Legal aid, 
Digitisation of legal aid

Frequently asked questions relating to the daily usage of LAMS from historical cases to new and including how to apply for legal aid, make queries and claim payments.

  • Entering and uploading information to LAMS

  • Messages and queries

  • Saving work, storing information and working offline

  • Certificates, applications and requests

  • Payment information

  • System access

  • Emergency applications and PACE

  • Internal information sharing

  • Solicitors/barristers/solicitor advocates – adding and transferring cases

  • Financial eligibility

  • Impact on business

  • System failure

  • Information security

  • Submission of reports on case

  • Historical/in-flight cases

Related content

  • Communications relating to LAMS
  • FAQs - About LAMS
  • FAQs - Amending and updating your digital account for LAMS
  • FAQs - Certificates, applications and requests on LAMS
  • FAQs - Emergency applications and PACE on LAMS
  • FAQs - Entering and uploading information to LAMS
  • FAQs - Financial eligibility on LAMS
  • FAQs - Getting started - digital account creation
  • FAQs - Internal information sharing on LAMS
  • FAQs - LAMS - How to get started
  • FAQs - LAMS - Your nidirect account
  • FAQs - LAMS and historical or in-flight cases
  • FAQs - LAMS impact on business
  • FAQs - LAMS information security
  • FAQs - LAMS payment information
  • FAQs - LAMS system access
  • FAQs - LAMS system failure
  • FAQs - LAMS technical requirements
  • FAQs - LAMS training and guidance
  • FAQs - Messages and queries in LAMS
  • FAQs - Saving work, storing information and working offline
  • FAQs - Solicitors, barristers, solicitor advocates - adding and transferring cases in LAMS
  • FAQs - Submission of report on case to LAMS
  • FAQs - Your digital account for LAMS
  • LAMS - Advice & assistance proformas
  • LAMS - Frequently Asked Questions
  • LAMS - Legal aid applicant declarations
  • LAMS - Legal aid supporting documents
  • LAMS - Multi-layered complex cases
  • LAMS - Proformas
  • LAMS - Proformas and supporting documents
  • LAMS - Representation higher courts proformas
  • LAMS - Representation lower courts proformas
  • LAMS - What legal professionals need to do
  • LAMS guidance material
  • LAMS instructional videos
  • LSANI guidance for LAMS
  • What is LAMS?
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