{"id":84042,"date":"2017-09-06T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=17ae1a36584d48b4c6d9a1de857fd1b6"},"modified":"2017-09-06T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:28:00","slug":"news-story-civil-news-limits-on-emergency-representation-for-jr-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84042","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: limits on emergency representation for JR work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Providers must ensure they do not carry out judicial review housing work we cannot pay them for when attempting to self-grant emergency representation via delegated functions.<\/p>\n<p>We know of several examples of this happening and firms should be reminded that delegated functions cannot be exercised for judicial review save for specified exceptions.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"exceptions-for-self-granting\">Exceptions for self-granting<\/h3>\n<p>Specific exceptions where self-granting emergency representation is possible includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>proceedings under Part VII Housing Act 1996 (as amended)<\/li>\n<li>section 21 National Assistance Act 1948 (as amended)<\/li>\n<li>section 20 Children Act 1989 (as amended)<\/li>\n<li>section 47(5) National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (as amended)<\/li>\n<li>section 19(3) Care Act 2014 or<\/li>\n<li>section 36 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014<br \/>\nThese exceptions are dealt with in paragraph 5.3 (a) of the specification to the Standard Civil Contract \u2013 see link below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"public-interest-cases\">Public interest cases<\/h3>\n<p>These are dealt with under paragraph 5.3 (b) of the Standard Civil Contract which states:<br \/>\n\u201cPublic interest cases: you do not have the power to make a determination that a client qualifies for civil legal services on the grounds that the case has a significant wider public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/standard-civil-contract-2015\">Standard Civil Contract 2015<\/a> \u2013 to download Standard Civil Contract 2015 specification (sections 1 to 6)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure you understand the rules when self-granting emergency representation in the housing category.<\/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\/84042"}],"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=84042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84058,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84042\/revisions\/84058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}