Legal aid legislation and guidance

LSANI guidance

• LSANI guidance - making a request for a face-to-face interpreter using FLEX or DALS
• LSANI guidance - practitioner file review - evidence for claims
• LSANI guidance - applicant declarations - all levels of service
• LSANI guidance note - closed material procedure in legacy & collusion cases
• LSANI guidance - Identifying, measuring and reducing applicant fraud and error using Future Overpayment Prevention methodology
• LSANI guidance - Identifying, measuring and reducing practitioner error and fraud
• LSANI guidance - Civil Practitioners - how to submit a Review Payment request
• LSANI guidance - the Language Room
• LSANI guidance - the Language Line
• LSANI guidance - seeking the domestic abuse waiver
• LSANI pilot - general authority for the deployment of mediators in legally aided non-family intra-litigation civil proceedings
• LSANI guidance - completion of financial eligibility in advice & assistance
• LSANI guidance - completion of financial eligibility in representation lower
• LSANI guidance - practitioner error & fraud pilot
• Frequently Asked Questions - practitioner error & fraud pilot
• Process maps - practitioner error & fraud pilot
• LSANI guidance - applicant fraud & error
• LSANI - General authority pilot for the use of psychiatrists and psychologists as expert witnesses in public law Children Order cases in the Family Proceedings court
• LSANI guidance - reviews, redeterminations and appeals to the Taxing Master for Crown court legal aid costs
• LSANI policy - requirements for submitting electronic pages of prosecution evidence (ePPE)
• LSANI guidance - accuracy of legal aid payments
• LSANI guidance note - how to address identified common errors
• LSANI guidance note - requirements for checking payment requests & supporting information
• LSANI policy - requirements for submitting travel related expense claims
• LSANI guidance - solicitor specific - making travel expense payment requests
• LSANI guidance - barrister specific - making travel expense payment requests
• LSANI - Policy for the submission of requests for payment with the statutory time limits
• LSANI - Fees adjustment and recoupments policy
• LSANI guidelines on submitting requests for civil exceptional funding
• LSANI guidance - Counsel requests for payment - Article 2 family & children order cases
• LSANI - Hardship payments policy and application forms
• LSANI guidance - Costs for excessive photocoping in the Crown court
• LSANI - Guidance note on civil taxed cases
• LSANI - Guidance note on criminal court of appeals taxed cases
• LSANI guidance note on summary only magistrates' court cases
• LSANI guidance - Appeals, reviews and redeterminations
• LSANI guidance - Tabling appeals before the appeals panel
• LSANI - General medical authority for advice and assistance cases
• LSANI - General authority for incurred costs in funded cases under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995
• LSANI - General authority for medical fees in civil cases
• LSANI - General authority for consulting engineers' reports and witness fees in civil cases
• LSANI guidance - Notes on completing financial eligibility on LAMS in representation higher cases
• LSANI guidance - Civil Representation
• LSANI guidance - Authorisation of counsel in civil cases
• LSANI guidance - Exceptional Funding
• Letter from LSA to Law Society - Decision making guidance for civil representation
• LSANI guidance - Remuneration for exceptional preparation work in the Magistrates’ courts and appeals to the County court
• LSANI guidance – Remuneration for exceptional preparation work in the Crown court
• SEGP guidance – 22 October 2008

DoJ guidance

• DoJ guidance - domestic abuse waiver in legal aid applications
• DoJ guidance - Submission of electronic pages of prosecution evidence (ePPE)
• DoJ guidance - Payment for excessive photocopying in the Crown court
• DoJ guidance - LSANI prospects of success and cost benefit analysis
• DoJ guidance – Remuneration for exceptional preparation work in the Magistrates’ courts and appeals to the County court
• DoJ guidance - Remuneration for exceptional preparation work in the Crown court
• DoJ direction on Children Order uplift
• DoJ guidance - Youth engagement clinics

Statutory Charge guidance

• Statutory Charge - Important notes for practitioners
• LAMS - Supporting documents for Statutory Charge
• Guidance for legal representatives on the partial restatement - 31 March 2010
• Guide to Statutory Charge – December 2010
• Guide to Statutory Charge – December 2012
• Paying for your legal aid - The Statutory Charge

Other guidance

• Lord Chancellor's guidance on SEGP
• Lord Chancellor's direction on extradition cases
• Crown court legal aid PPE guidance
• Magistrates' court - list of active offences with legislation
• Expert witness - CPS scales

Legal aid legislation

• The Magistrates’ Courts and County Court Appeals (Criminal Legal Aid) (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021 - SR 2021 No. 311
• The Civil Legal Aid (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - SI 2019 No. 505
• The Civil Legal Services (Financial) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 - SR 2019 No. 203
• The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019 - SR 2019 No. 122
• The Civil Legal Services (Remuneration) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019 - SR 2019 No.119
• The Civil Legal Services (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 - SR 2019 No.14
• The Civil Legal Services (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 - SR 2019 No.13
• The Civil Legal Services (Scope) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 416
• The Magistrates’ Courts and County Court Appeals (Criminal Legal Aid) (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 – SR 2016 No. 398
• The Civil Legal Services (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 396
• The Civil Legal Services (Financial) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 338
• The Civil Legal Services (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 337
• The Civil Legal Services (Remuneration) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 336
• The Civil Legal Services (Scope) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 202
• The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 201
• The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No. 200
• The Criminal Defence Services (Remuneration) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 - SR 2016 No.198
• The Access to Justice (2003 Order) (Commencement No 8) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No 237 (C.17)
• The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 215
• The Criminal Legal Aid (Disclosure of Information) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 203
• The Civil Legal Services (Disclosure of Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 202
• The Civil Legal Services (Remuneration) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 201
• The Civil Legal Services (Statutory Charge) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 200
• The Civil Legal Services (Cost Protection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015; SR 2015 No. 199
• The Civil Legal Services (Costs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. SR 2015 No. 198
• The Civil Legal Services (Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 197
• The Civil Legal Services (Financial) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 196
• The Civil Legal Services (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 195
• The Access to Justice (2003 Order) (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 194 (C. 13)
• The Legal Aid and Coroners’ Courts (2014 Act) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 - SR 2015 No. 193 (C. 12)
• The Legal Aid and Coroners’ Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014
• The Magistrates’ Courts and County Court Appeals (Criminal Legal Aid) (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2014 - SR 2014 No. 178
• The Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 - SR 2014 No. 64
• The Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 - SR 2012 No. 391
• The Criminal Legal Aid (Recovery of Defence Costs Orders) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2012 - SR 2012 No.268
• The Criminal Aid Certificates Rules (Northern Ireland) 2012 - SR 2012 No.135
• The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011 - SR 2011 No. 152
• The Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 - SR 2010 No. 93
• The Magistrates’ Courts and County Court Appeals (Criminal Legal Aid) (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2009 - SR 2009 No. 313
• The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005 - SR 2005 No. 112
• The Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 - SI 2003 No. 435 (N.I. 10)

Department of Justice Directions 2024

• Direction No. 1 - Remuneration arrangements for pilot to fast track seriouis sexual offence cases in children under 16 years in all court divisions in Northern Ireland

Department of Justice Directions 2020

• Direction No. 1 - Remuneration arrangements for Asylum and Immigration proceedings before the First-Tier and Upper Tribunal

Department of Justice Directions 2019

• Direction No. 1 - Remuneration arrangements for the pilot to fast track serious sexual offence cases involving children aged under 13 years in Belfast crown court

Department of Justice Directions 2018

• Direction No. 1 - Remuneration arrangements for the pilot Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme (DVPP)
• Direction No. 2 - Remuneration arrangements for the pilot Substance Misuse Court Programme (SMCP)

Department of Justice Directions 2017

• Direction No.1 - Interim Payments in cases funded under Article 10A
• Direction No. 2 - Interim Payments in cases funded under Article 12A of the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003
• Direction No. 3 - Interim Payments in criminal cases in the Crown court
• Direction No. 4 - - Interim Payments in criminal cases in the Magistrates’ courts and County courts

Department of Justice authorisations

• DoJ authorisation - Omagh civil action – 24 October 2012
• DoJ authorisation - Omagh civil action – 06 February 2014
• DoJ authorisation 9 - Terrorism prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011
• DoJ authorisation 11 – Proceedings before the care tribunal
• DoJ authorisation 12 – Authority for the revocation of authorisations 7, 8 and 11
• DoJ authorisation 13 - Hague Convention 2007
• DoJ authorisation 14 - Exceptional legal aid and delegation of decision-making

Rescinded policies & guidance

• LSANI - Guidance note on COVID-19 Interim Payment Scheme and furloughing staff
• LSANI - COVID-19 Interim Payment Scheme
• LSANI - COVID-19 special payments policy and claim forms
• LSANI guidance note - Proposed COVID-19 interim payment scheme - requirement to attach barristers
• DoJ Direction No.2 - COVID-19 Interim Payment Scheme for legal aid suppliers