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7th August 2024
This update is to inform you of system enhancements made to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) and further improvements planned for the autumn
10th June 2024
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable from 5.30pm to 7pm on Monday 17 June for deployment and upgrades.
22nd April 2024
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable from 5.30pm to 7pm on Tuesday 30 April for deployment and upgrades.
31st August 2023
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable from 5.30pm on Friday 22 September until 7am on Saturday 23 September for deployment and upgrades.
24th April 2023
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable from 5:30pm on Friday 28 April until 7am on Saturday 29 April to allow for deployment and upgrades.
31st January 2023
The online system will be system unavailable between 9-11pm tonight to allow us to implement bug fixes
28th November 2022
Following upgrade work to Legal Aid Online (LAOL), we have listed the below fixes that were deployed and ongoing issues to be resolved.
25th November 2022
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable 9pm-midnight on Monday 28 September to allow for deployment and upgrades.
30th September 2022
Guidance on known current issues with the online system and how to address them
22nd September 2022
This update explains significant changes being made to our online system to create increased consistency and make LAOL easier to use
24th August 2022
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable 7pm-9pm on Wednesday 7 September to allow for essential upgrade maintenance.
20th July 2022
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable 7pm-9pm on Thursday 4 August to allow for essential upgrade maintenance.
16th May 2022
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable 7pm-9pm on Tuesday 31 May and 8am-6pm on Saturday 11 June to allow for essential maintenance.
15th March 2022
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be unavailable so we can install the latest system updates between 5.30pm and 11pm on Friday 25 March 2022.
4th March 2022
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be down for essential maintenance and unavailable between 8am and midday on Saturday 12 March 2022.
20th January 2022
Access to Legal Aid Online (LAOL) will be down for essential maintenance and unavailable between 8am and midday on Saturday 29 January 2022.
8th December 2021
Legal Aid Online will be unavailable on Tuesday 14 December, from 5:30pm to 9pm to implement system changes.
20th October 2021
Claiming fees for Police Station advice with Police Scotland National Custody System Unique Reference Number now a 7 digit number instead of 6 digit number.
6th September 2021
Our website will be unavailable for a short time on Saturday 11 September 2021 to allow scheduled maintenance by our hosting provider.
3rd August 2021
Access to LAOL Legal Aid Online will be unavailable for essential maintenance on Saturday 7 August, 8am to 10am.
13th July 2021
We have updated Legal Aid Online with an easier way of requesting an increase in limit for Criminal ABWOR fixed fee cases when submitting the ABWOR application.
12th July 2021
On Monday 12 July LAOL will be unavailable from 5.30pm until 7.30pm to deploy the latest changes and essential upgrade maintenance.
12th July 2021
We are shortly making the final switch to the new Legal Aid Online (LAOL) upgrade with users required to implement changes to the log in process.
17th June 2021
Access to LAOL Legal Aid Online will be down for essential maintenance and unavailable between 8pm and 8.30pm on Sunday 20 June
18th May 2021
Following issues with LAOL the problem has been resolved and the online system is now available.
17th April 2021
Our online system is back online due to required maintenance being completed ahead of schedule.
14th April 2021
Access to LAOL Legal Aid Online will be down for essential maintenance and unavailable on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 April.
22nd March 2021
We have reverted to previous online system until issues resolved by third party supplier
6th January 2021
Details of some changes to the available fields when entering applicant details in the Civ Sol online form
22nd May 2020
We would like your feedback if you have been affected by or can otherwise identify any equalities impacts of the changes we have made due to Covid-19.
13th May 2020
Guidance to help solicitors & clients when providing applicant financial information during Covid-19 for criminal, civil and children's legal aid
28th April 2020
See various LAOL improvements including to paper accounts, device displays, ABWOR expenditure limits & diet definition, and system security.
29th August 2019
Learn about and view screenshots of the improvements to Legal Aid Online.
18th April 2019
This update contains information about a new ‘Block solicitor transfer/firm moves’ option that will go live on Wednesday 24 April.
16th April 2019
An Edinburgh/local agent function will be available in Court of Session cases if you provided the Edinburgh agent details in the CIV/SOL application and these h
11th April 2019
We have now developed a third party access solution allowing you to restrict access for law accountants to specified cases only.
3rd April 2019
Following your feedback we have made changes so you can now submit more types of interim accounts online.
11th March 2019
Not all notifications are being sent to solicitors when we receive applications for court granted and automatic legal aid.
28th November 2018
We are carrying out research to help shape the future look and feel of Legal Aid Online.
18th May 2018
This update contains information about the following system changes that will go live on the evening of 23 May.
17th May 2018
This update contains information about the following system changes that will go live on the evening of 23 May.