Publications

Webex Virtual Hearings -  A Guide for External Participants

Summary of responses to the consultation on how personal injury discount rate on how it should be set.

NI Judicial Pension Scheme Advisory Board Minutes and Agendas 2020

This document has been produced in response to the Department’s consultation on the law in relation to child sexual exploitation (CSE) which closed on 16 April 2019.

Summary of responses and next steps for proposed amendments to section 12 and section 18 of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation legislation.

Key messages for legal aid suppliers for September 2020.

This report presents workload statistics for the last five financial years for both Custodial Services (Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre, JJC) and Youth Justice Services (YJS) within the Youth Justice Agency (YJA).

The focus of this publication is on key attitudinal modules contained within the NISCS relating to:

Proposals on the Use of Live Links for Police Detention/Interviews consultation and summary of responses.

The LSANI guidance on the accuracy of legal aid payments provides advice and guidance to the profession to support the Agency in further reducing fraud and error with the aim of removing a qualification on our accounts and improving our performance in the accuracy of payments.

Circular 'LSA 18-2020 - Accuracy of legal aid payments' draws attention to the guidance note on the accuracy of legal aid payments which provides details of the approach and the ongoing work being undertaken by the Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland (LSANI) to

Sightlink A Consolidated Guide for the Public

The LSANI guidance note on how to address identified common errors in legal aid payments points out the various ways for practitioners to assist in the reduction of fraud and error in the system and also to ensure more efficient processing.

The LSANI guidance note on the requirements for checking payment requests and supporting information points out the series of checks carried out by the Agency across both criminal and civil cases.

Circular 'LSA 17-2020 - Requirements for making travel claims' draws practitioners to note that the Agency has uploaded a new policy statement in respect of the requirements for making travel claims. 

The 'LSANI policy - requirements for making travel related expense claims' replaces the requirements, as described in circular 13/19 paragraphs 11-16, for submitting travel related payment requests on LAMS and sets out the action to be taken by the Agency in relation t

Guidance for solicitors on how to submit a travel related claim for payment in LAMS.

Guidance for barristers on how to submit a travel related claim for payment in LAMS.

Code of Practice for Statistics – Policies & Statements

Minutes of AccessNI stakeholder forum meetings for 2020.