Certificated (licenced) work
Here is a non-exhaustive list of work requiring a public funding certificate:
- Cases before the Upper Tribunal (judicial reviews and appeals of First-tier Tribunal decisions).
- High Court judicial reviews.
- Court of Protection ‘best interests’ or ‘deprivation of liberty’ cases.
- High Court or county court damages claims (probably under the actions against the police contract).
- Nearest relative displacement actions in the county court.
There are two types of Legal Representation funding under a certificate: (a) ‘Investigative Representation’, which is limited to the investigation of the strength of contemplated proceedings (there is some overlap with Legal Help); (b) ‘Full Representation’, which is the main type.
There are two types of certificate: (a) a ‘substantive certificate’, which is granted by the LAA; (b) an ‘emergency certificate’, which is granted by the firm under delegated functions (if it has a contract in the relevant category) for urgent steps.
Certificated work is means-tested, except in certain ‘deprivation of liberty’ cases.
The online Client and Cost Management System (CCMS) is used for this type of work.
INFORMATION
Legal Aid category:
- Disbursements, including independent experts
- Hourly rates and fixed fees
- Legal Aid Agency Liverpool Office
- Legal Aid for appeals
- Legal Aid forms
- Legal Aid guidance documents
- Legal Aid in the Court of Protection
- Peer review
- Standard Civil Contract 2018
- The mental health fee scheme
- Transaction criteria
- Legal Aid archive
- Legal Aid eligibility
All information categories:
- Legal Aid
- Nearest relative
- Statistics
- The Law Society
- CPD
- General information pages
- Other jurisdictions
- Coronavirus
- Changes made by MHA 2007
- Legislation overviews
- Main types of funding
- Aftercare
- International law
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