LAG: Legal Aid Handbook 2022/23

The only comprehensive guide to the legal aid scheme, Legal Aid Handbook 2022/23 is the one book no legal aid lawyer can afford to be without. It covers the legal framework of the scheme, with full discussion of civil, criminal and family legal aid, and analysis of the leading case-law since LASPO.

Legal Aid Handbook 2022/23 provides:

• practical, step by step guidance on conducting cases, getting paid, advocacy, and financial and contract management
• comprehensive guidance on performance monitoring and quality standards
• specialist chapters on family, immigration, mental health, community care, housing, crime, exceptional case funding and public law
• tactics and tips on using CCMS, with useful workarounds
• in-depth guidance on costs and a new chapter on IFA and ICA cost appeals
• all the latest policy developments

This edition includes:

• The Standard Crime Contract 2022
• The LAA’s Covid contingency arrangements where relevant in the text
• Discussion of the LAA’s new interface with CCMS – Apply
• Latest available information on the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme
• Reference to guidance on the LAA’s new training and support website

Legal Aid Handbook 2022/23