# The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2000, Regulation 16: Amendments to Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989


(1) For regulations 113 to 118 there shall be substituted:
“113 (1) Subject to paragraph (2), detailed assessment proceedings shall be deemed to be proceedings to which the assisted person’s certificate relates, whether or not it has been discharged or revoked, and the costs of such proceedings shall be paid out of the fund unless the court otherwise orders.
(2) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, an assisted person’s solicitor may appeal against a decision in detailed assessment proceedings in accordance with rules of court, and, if counsel acting for the assisted person notifies the solicitor that he is dissatisfied with the decision, shall do so, but the costs of any such appeal shall be deemed to be costs to which the assisted person’s certificate relates only to the extent that the court hearing the appeal so orders.
(3) The assisted person shall not be required to make any contribution to the fund on account of the costs of any appeal against a decision in detailed assessment proceedings and the charge created by section 16(6) of the Act shall not apply in relation to any resulting increase in the net liability of the fund in consequence of any order made in such an appeal.
(4) Where permission to appeal is obtained under CPR rule 47.24(2), the assisted person’s solicitor shall give written notice to that effect to the Lord Chancellor.
(5) The assisted person’s solicitor shall send to the Lord Chancellor, together with the notice given under paragraph (4), copies of:
(a) the bill of costs; and
(b) the request for permission to appeal.
(6) When filing a notice of appeal, the assisted person’s solicitor shall file with the court a copy of the notice given under paragraph (4).
(7) After filing notice of appeal the assisted person’s solicitor shall without delay send a copy of it to the Lord Chancellor.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/451/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-16
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