The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013

[F1 Remuneration for civil legal services: judicial review E+W

5A.— (1) Where an application for judicial review is issued, the Lord Chancellor must not pay remuneration for civil legal services consisting of making that application unless—

(a) the court gives permission to bring judicial review proceedings;

(b) the court neither refuses nor gives permission to bring judicial review proceedings and the Lord Chancellor considers that it is reasonable to pay remuneration in the circumstances of the case, taking into account, in particular—

(i) the reason why the provider did not obtain a costs order or costs agreement in favour of the legally aided person;

(ii) the extent to which, and the reason why, the legally aided person obtained the outcome sought in the proceedings, and

(iii) the strength of the application for permission at the time it was filed, based on the law and on the facts which the provider knew or ought to have known at that time;

(c) the defendant withdraws the decision to which the application for judicial review relates and the withdrawal results in the court—

(i) refusing permission to bring judicial review proceedings, or

(ii) neither refusing nor giving permission;

(d) the court orders an oral hearing to consider—

(i) whether to give permission to bring judicial review proceedings;

(ii) whether to give permission to bring a relevant appeal, or

(iii) a relevant appeal, or

(e) the court orders a rolled-up hearing.

(2) Nothing in this regulation affects any payment—

(a) by the Lord Chancellor of disbursements incurred by a provider in accordance with the relevant contract, or

(b) on account by the Lord Chancellor to a provider in accordance with the relevant contract.

(3) In this regulation—

(a) “2010 Standard Crime Contract” means the contract so named between the Lord Chancellor and a provider with whom the Lord Chancellor has made an arrangement under section 2(1) of the Act for the provision of advice, assistance and representation made available under sections 13, 15 or 16 of the Act;

(b) [F2 “2013 CLA Contract and “2018 CLA Contract” mean the contracts] so named between the Lord Chancellor and a provider for the provision of civil legal services under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012;

(c) “application for judicial review” means an application for judicial review made or treated as made in accordance with—

(i) Part 54 of the Procedure Rules, or

(ii) Part 4 of the Tribunal Rules,

and includes bringing a relevant appeal and making an application for permission to bring a relevant appeal, but does not include a relevant application for interim relief;

(d) “costs agreement” and “costs order” mean, respectively, an agreement or an order that another party to the proceedings pay all, or part of, the costs of the legally aided person;

(e) “court” includes the Upper Tribunal established under section 3 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007;

(f) “issued” includes—

(i) the sending of the application by the Upper Tribunal under rule 28(8) of the Tribunal Rules, or

(ii) the provision of the application by the applicant under rule 28A(2)(a) of the Tribunal Rules,

to each person named in the application as a respondent or interested party;

(g) “Procedure Rules” means the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

(h) “relevant appeal” means an appeal against a decision to refuse permission to bring judicial review proceedings under—

(i) Part 52 of the Procedure Rules, or

(ii) Part 7 of the Tribunal Rules;

(i) “relevant application for interim relief” means application for an interim remedy under—

(i) Part 25 of the Procedure Rules, or

(ii) Part 4 of the Tribunal Rules;

(j) “relevant contract” means whichever of the 2010 Standard Civil Contract, the 2010 Standard Crime Contract, the 2013 Standard Civil Contract, the 2013 Individual Case Contract (Civil), the 2013 Individual Case Contract (High Cost Civil), the 2013 CLA Contract [F3 , the 2014 Standard Civil Contract, the 2014 Standard Civil Contract (Welfare Benefits) [F4 , the 2015 Standard Civil Contract, [F5 the 2016 Standard Civil Contract (Welfare Benefits),] the 2018 Standard Civil Contract or the 2018 CLA Contract]] governs the provision of the civil legal services for which remuneration is claimed;

(k) “rolled-up hearing” means a hearing at which the court considers the application for judicial review (including whether to give permission to bring judicial review proceedings);

(l) “Tribunal Rules” means the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 5A inserted (27.3.2015) by The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/898), regs. 1, 2(3) (with reg. 3)

F2 Words in reg. 5A(3)(b) substituted (1.9.2018) by The Civil Legal Aid (Procedure, Remuneration and Statutory Charge) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/803), regs. 1, 3(3)(a)

F3 Words in reg. 5A(3)(j) substituted (1.11.2015) by The Civil and Criminal Legal Aid (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1678), regs. 1(2)(b), 4(3)

F4 Words in reg. 5A(3)(j) substituted (1.9.2018) by The Civil Legal Aid (Procedure, Remuneration and Statutory Charge) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/803), regs. 1, 3(3)(b)

F5 Words in reg. 5A(3)(j) inserted (1.4.2023) by The Civil Legal Aid (Immigration Interviews (Exceptions) and Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1379), regs. 1(1), 3