Legal Aid forms
All the legal aid forms can be obtained from the Government website; they change fairly regularly so check there for updates.
Changes to forms
Para 3.12 of the 2018 Standard Civil Contract Specification states: "We may amend the Application Forms from time to time upon giving at least 28 days' notice to you." Occasionally forms have been changed without notice, but the LAA have always commenced the notice period from when notification under the contract was belatedly made.
Form CW 1&2 MH
At the time of writing the following is the latest form. The page contains a link to the LAA website, which should redirect to whatever is the current form.
- Mental health Legal Aid form. Legal Aid Agency, 'Form CW 1&2 MH' (v15, 1/2/21) — This is an amended version of the form to reflect the removal of the mortgage cap as part of the means test for civil Legal Aid. Under Total Net Equity the text reads "Deduct the full amount of any debt secured by a mortgage or charge on the property." instead of "The maximum disregard allowable is capped at £100,000 for all outstanding mortgages/loans covering all property held. You must carry out the calculation of total net equity on 'other property' before 'main home' (i.e. use the mortgage disregard on other property first)."
External links
- Government website: Controlled work application forms. "Forms to apply for legal aid in controlled work cases, including immigration and mental health, family mediation and appeals."
- Government website: Mental health: CLR, enhanced rates and review of refusal. "Controlled work application forms: representation - CW1&2 (MH), enhanced rates - CWC (MH), review of refusal or withdrawal - CW4 (MH)."
- Government website: Civil legal aid application forms. "Forms and guidance to apply for legal aid in civil and family cases, as well as certificates, notices, proceeding codes, and judicial review."
- Government website: Legal aid: submit a claim. "Use claim forms or claim online, eg using CCMS, to get paid for all aspects of legal aid work; find guidance and help with submissions."
- Government website: EC-CLAIM 1: escape fee case claim form. "Forms and checklists to submit escape fee case claims under the 4 different categories." The following documents are relevant to mental health law: (1) LAA, 'EC-CLAIM 1 MH: escape fee case claim form - mental health' (v8, April 2015); (2) LAA, 'Escape claim checklist - mental health' (v1.4, September 2016).
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
- Main types of funding
All information categories:
- Aftercare
- Changes made by MHA 2007
- Coronavirus
- CPD
- General information pages
- International law
- Legal Aid
- Legislation overviews
- Nearest relative
- Other jurisdictions
- Statistics
- The Law Society
Other information pages:
What links here:
- 2021-01-05 New CW 1&2 MH form
- Annual Review 2012
- Annual Review 2013
- Annual Review 2014
- August 2014 chronology
- August 2014 update
- Certificated (licenced) work
- Controlled work
- December 2016 chronology
- December 2016 update
- Disbursements, including independent experts
- February 2017 chronology
- February 2017 update
- Hourly rates and fixed fees
- January 2021 chronology
- January 2021 update
- Judicial review forms
- July 2014 chronology
- July 2014 update
- Legal Aid Agency Liverpool Office
- Legal Aid for appeals
- Legal Aid information archive
- List of contributors
- March 2013 chronology
- March 2013 update
- Means testing
- Merits tests
- Non-means-tested non-tribunal matters
- Peer review
- Residence test
- September 2012 chronology
- September 2012 update
- September 2018 chronology
- September 2018 update
- Standard Civil Contract 2014
- Test page 1
- The mental health fee scheme
- Transaction criteria