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Emergency Alerts Test on Sunday 7 September, 3pm
Delay to the production of Civil Schedules ready for 1 September 2025
Updates to Controlled work forms (CW3) for extension requests on hourly rates and standard fee cases in immigration & asylum matters
Providers can access the Apply for civil legal aid service for submission of legal applications in some civil proceedings.
Announcing the launch of the improved ‘Check if you can get legal aid’ website, redesigned and user-focused.
Import claims from your case management system using new functionality in the Non-Standard Magistrate claims service
A new keycard is available from Monday 7 April 2025.
View the funding decision of a criminal legal aid application in your LAA online portal with the new functionality rolled out for Apply for criminal legal aid.
We are making changes to the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS) to automatically lodge Case Outcomes on Associated Cases in SCA matters.
The Magistrates Billing team will now consider prior authority requests in contempt and breach of anti-social behaviour injunction cases.
Our legal aid application forms are being updated after revisions to the privacy notices.
The eForms service is no longer available.
The Legal Aid Learning website has been updated with an improved design and functionality.
An overview of the replacement services.
eForms will no longer be available for new applications from Wednesday 18 September 2024.
The new service to receive legal aid applications, Apply for Criminal Legal Aid, has now replaced eForms CRM14 and CRM15.
Apply for prior authority to incur disbursements and Apply for Extension of Upper Limit are the replacement services for CRM4 and CRM5 eForms.
Applications for criminal legal aid must now be submitted via Apply for criminal legal aid.
With effect from Tuesday 6 August, all new applications for criminal legal aid should be submitted using the new Crime Apply service.
Providers will not be able to access their eForm portal account from Friday 25 October 2024. Providers should download any needed eForms before this date.
The new service to receive legal aid applications, Apply for Criminal Legal Aid, will replace eForms CRM14 and CRM15 from Tuesday 6 August 2024.
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