{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-legal-aid-rules-1995/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-legal-aid-rules-1995/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2034",
  "legislation_title": "The Church of England (Legal Aid) Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/church-of-england-legal-aid-rules-1995",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Abuse of legal aid",
  "text": "(1) Where an assisted person’s solicitor or his counsel (if any) has reason to believe that any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (3) exist, he shall forthwith report those circumstances to the Commission.\n(2) Where at any time during the hearing of any proceedings in respect of which legal aid is granted, the tribunal before which the proceedings are being heard considers that any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (3) exist, that tribunal may make an order referring to the Commission the question whether the assisted person’s certificate should continue.\n(3) The circumstances referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) are that—\n(a) the assisted person has required the proceedings to which the certificate relates to be conducted unreasonably so as to incur an unjustifiable expense to the Fund or has required unreasonably that the proceedings be continued;\n(b) the assisted person has wilfully failed to comply with these Rules;\n(c) the assisted person has knowingly made a false statement or false representation in connection with an application for legal aid or for amendment of a certificate;\n(d) the assisted person has failed to disclose a material fact in connection with an application for legal aid or for amendment of a certificate and he cannot show that he used due care and diligence to avoid that failure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2034/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:04:28.264977+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}