{"id":71908,"date":"2016-07-04T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=eba7ec3897953d9060cea60918d4f50f"},"modified":"2016-07-04T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:31:00","slug":"news-story-crime-news-mandatory-to-use-crm14-eforms-for-all-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71908","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: mandatory to use CRM14 eForms for all applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We are no longer able to accept new applications for criminal legal aid on CRM14 paper forms.<\/p>\n<p>In future, all applications must be made on the CRM14 eForm, which has already proved popular with most providers.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the eForm is illustrated by the fact that more than 90% of applications were being made online before it became mandatory to do so.<\/p>\n<p>You should note the final dates for which \u2018in progress\u2019 paper applications can be submitted \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"last-paper-applications-magistrates\">Last paper applications: magistrates<\/h3>\n<p>Applications will be accepted on paper if they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>date stamped by the court or signed by clients on or before 3 July 2016<\/li>\n<li>at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) within 1 month i.e. by 5 August 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"last-paper-applications-crown-court\">Last paper applications: Crown Court<\/h3>\n<p>Application will be accepted on paper providing they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>signed by clients on or before 3 July 2016<\/li>\n<li>received at LAA within 1 month i.e. by 5 August 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"modernisation-programme\">Modernisation programme<\/h3>\n<p>The CRM14 eForm is part of a programme of work which has overseen the complete transformation and modernisation of the criminal legal aid applications process in the space of 24 months.<\/p>\n<p>The LAA\u2019s head of crime case management Daniel Flury said: \u201cMandating the CRM14 eForm is the last act of what has been a tremendously successful programme of work to comprehensively modernise the criminal legal aid application process.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"online-provider-training\">Online provider training<\/h3>\n<p>A final free online training session will be taking place on 7 July 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/legal-aid-crime-eform\">Legal aid: crime eForm<\/a> \u2013 guidance and information including training video links and FAQs<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/legal-aid-agency-crm14-eform-online-training-tickets-25170759419\">Eventbrite online training<\/a> \u2013 to book a training session<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRM14 eForm mandatory for criminal legal applications from 4 July 2016.<\/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\/71908"}],"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=71908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71919,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71908\/revisions\/71919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}