https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/completing-the-advice-and-assistance-application-form/
https://www.slab.org.uk/guidance/completing-the-advice-and-assistance-application-form/
All civil advice and assistance and ABWOR applications must be submitted online.
Use this to:
Cases of the latter may include:
Requests for increases in expenditure should be made using the online increase application.
If you grant a diagnostic interview and/or standard civil advice and assistance, you must send a copy of the form to us within 14 days of beginning the advice and assistance.
Unless shown otherwise, you must answer all the questions on the online advice and assistance application.
When you see clients face to face they must sign the declaration. If the client is present and cannot sign then you need to provide an explanation when you submit your application via Legal Aid Online.
If you are not meeting your client in person then you must explain the terms of the declaration to them and obtain their verbal consent to its terms. You may then select the ‘client not present and agrees with the declaration terms’ option within Legal Aid Online.
See our guidance on solicitor and applicant signatures.
Advice and Assistance application procedures
This page includes information on how to apply for non-templated increases in expenditure under civil A&A. It covers the information you should provide us with; case-related factors to address in your application; the process for reconsideration of refused increases; the process for urgently needed increases; whether authority for retrospective increases is available; and other guidance you may wish to consider.