{"id":64047,"date":"2015-11-12T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c53a2cbfc6fb3cdd8462ee16a5c0f8ef"},"modified":"2015-11-12T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:03:13","slug":"news-story-civil-news-revised-exceptional-funding-guidance-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64047","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: revised exceptional funding guidance available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We are publishing revised guidance and forms for clients and providers on civil legal aid funding in non-inquest cases.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance was published on 12 November 2015 and is available on the exceptional funding pages on GOV.UK \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>It takes into account the judgment of Mr Justice Collins in \u2018IS versus the Director of Legal Aid Casework and the Lord Chancellor\u2019.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-is-changing\">What is changing?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>updated content on the exceptional case funding scheme on GOV.UK, including how to apply<\/li>\n<li>CIV ECF1 form and provider pack have been revised<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will also very shortly issue amended Lord Chancellor\u2019s guidance under section 4 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"appeal\">Appeal<\/h3>\n<p>This judgment is being appealed and we will review these changes when we know the outcome.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/legal-aid-apply-for-exceptional-case-funding\">Legal aid: apply for exceptional case funding<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amended guidance and forms follow judgment in case of IS versus Director of Legal Aid Casework.<\/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\/64047"}],"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=64047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}