{"id":60548,"date":"2015-08-20T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2242cb1d9c89757b3bcd7a7a2e691f67"},"modified":"2015-08-20T10:32:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:32:19","slug":"news-story-civil-news-exceptional-funding-guidance-in-inquest-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60548","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: exceptional funding guidance in inquest cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Lord Chancellor has published revised guidance on civil legal aid funding in inquest cases.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance was published on 20 August 2015 and is available on the exceptional funding pages on GOV.UK \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>It takes into account the conclusions of the Court of Appeal in the case of Letts v The Lord Chancellor.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"caseworkers\">Caseworkers<\/h3>\n<p>The guidance sets out some of the factors that caseworkers will need to take into account when looking at applications for exceptional funding. <\/p>\n<p>So it should be useful to legal aid providers and potential claimants who are considering applying for exceptional funding.<\/p>\n<p>It is issued by the Lord Chancellor under section 4 (3) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/legal-aid-apply-for-exceptional-case-funding\">Apply for exceptional case funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWHC\/Admin\/2015\/402.html\">Letts judgment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revised guidance takes into account Court of Appeal decision in the case of Letts v The Lord Chancellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}