{"id":85370,"date":"2017-10-16T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6179c8efb6defe6aed43fe329c9e5e98"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:02:00","slug":"news-story-civil-news-understanding-when-a-case-needs-exceptional-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85370","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: understanding when a case needs exceptional funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Remember to make the correct selections when working your way through the online legal aid funding application process if you want to avoid delays.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 applications or amendments a month are currently marked incorrectly as requiring exceptional case funding.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"scope-questions\">Scope questions<\/h3>\n<p>One part of the application process which seems to be causing confusion concerns the 2 options offered to providers when they come to the drop-down menu scope questions under this section:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018ECF: In scope Schedule 1 Legal Aid Sentencing &amp; Punishment of Offenders Act 2012\u2019 within Section 10 Exceptional Funding.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You should select \u2018yes\u2019 if the case is in scope for funding and does not require exceptional case funding.<\/li>\n<li>You should select \u2018no\u2019 if the case is out of scope for funding and does require exceptional funding.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 id=\"exceptional-funding-hyperlink\">Exceptional funding hyperlink<\/h3>\n<p>If the proceedings are outside the scope of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 you must use the exceptional funding hyperlink. This appears on page 2 of your application.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccmstraining.justice.gov.uk\/training-resources\/training-resources\/exceptional-cases-funding-faqs\">CCMS training website: exceptional cases FAQs<\/a> \u2013 to download fact-sheet<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccmstraining.justice.gov.uk\/Quick-guides\/Quickguides\/making-an-initial-application-1\">CCMS training website: making an initial application<\/a> \u2013 to download quick guides<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarification on answering the scope funding question when making your online application in the Client and Cost Management System.<\/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\/85370"}],"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=85370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85383,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85370\/revisions\/85383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}