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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-and-remuneration-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1248",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Procedure and Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-procedure-and-remuneration-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/422) to increase fees for Controlled Work in the housing and debt and immigration and asylum categories of civil legal aid. It also amends the Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012 to substitute the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme with the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service.\nRegulation 2 updates the Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3098) by amending the reference to the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme, as this was replaced by the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service on the 1st August 2023 as a result of the Civil Legal Aid (Housing and Asylum Accommodation) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/147).\nRegulation 3 amends the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 to amend the rates paid to immigration and asylum legal aid and the housing and debt providers for the fees paid for preparation and attendance to at least £65.35/£69.30 per hour (non-London/London), or provide a 10% uplift, whichever is higher, across Controlled Work. Fixed fees and escape fee thresholds are uplifted by the same percentage increase as the underlying hourly rate for that work. It also merges the immigration and asylum table with the housing and debt table where the values are the same. The rates in table 8(ca) have not been increased as they are not payable for Controlled Legal Representation commenced on or after 1st April 2023.\nRegulation 4 provides that the amendments made in regulation 3 do not affect the payment of civil legal services provided under a legal aid determination made before 22nd December 2025.\nAn impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is included in the assessment published with the explanatory memorandum alongside this instrument (on www.legislation.gov.uk).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1248/note",
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  "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."
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