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Information about completing means assessment forms and checking that your client has correctly completed the forms.
Contract documents for providers of face-to-face legal aid services in family, immigration and asylum, housing and debt.
Find VHCC arrangements, guidance and VHCC contract documents for organisations and self-employed advocates.
List of consultations regarding impacts of court and police station closures on duty scheme boundaries.
Guidance for legal aid providers on secure handling of personal documents and data.
Information for organisations interested in delivering specialist telephone advice services in Education, Discrimination, and Housing and Debt.
Our approach to working with clients and making applications.
Draft CLA contract documents for providers of remote legal advice in discrimination and education from 1 April 2021.
Contract documents for providers: clinical negligence, mental health, community care, actions against police, public law, family mediation.
How to appeal against our assessment findings on individual claims, or a sample of claims, billed to the Legal Aid Agency (LAA).
How to appeal against a civil means assessment that you or your client disagree with.
You should follow the standard file process outlined below when submitting work for online and paper billing.
This information supports the Crime Defence Direct and Police Station Immigration Telephone Advice Service tender process.
Contract documents for providers of face-to-face legal aid services in mental health and community care.
Contract documents for providers of welfare benefits advice in London and the south-east, and the Midlands and the east.
Contract documents for the 2016 Standard Civil Contract.
How to appeal a decision made by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) for legal aid funding in high cost civil cases.
Find out when and how litigators can claim the Evidence Provision Fee for Crown Court legal aid work.
Information for legal aid providers interested in applying to deliver services under civil categories.
Information for organisations interested in delivering face to face Criminal Legal Aid Services from October 2022.
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