Regulation 4 Amendment of the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996

In regulation 2(1), at the appropriate places, insert–

• ““diagnostic interview” means a meeting or meetings between a solicitor and a client, or as the case may be a person acting on behalf of a client in accordance with regulation 6, and any work reasonably and necessarily following on from any such meeting to include any further work which for the purpose of the provision of advice and assistance relates to a matter, or a range of matters, which are not distinct; and

• “distinct matter”, in relation to advice and assistance concerning civil matters only, shall be construed in accordance with regulation 8A(2);”.