{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1049",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-scotland-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations() (interpretation)–\n(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted “— (1)”;\n(b) for the definitions of “counsel” and of “junior counsel” there shall be substituted–\n““counsel” includes a solicitor-advocate, except in regulations 21(1)(c), 44 and 45 below;”; and\n““junior counsel” includes a junior solicitor-advocate;”; and\n(c) for the definition of “rights of audience solicitor” to the end of Regulation 3 there shall be substituted the following provisions:–\n““right of audience” means, in relation to a solicitor, a right of audience in the Court of Session, the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which a solicitor has by virtue of section 25A (rights of audience in specified courts) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980();\n“senior counsel” includes a senior solicitor-advocate except in paragraph (2) below;\n“solicitor-advocate” means a solicitor, whether instructed by another solicitor or not, when and only when he is exercising his right of audience or acting in connection with the exercise of such a right and “junior solicitor-advocate” and “senior solicitor-advocate” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (2) below;\nand, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a solicitor does not include a solicitor when acting as a solicitor-advocate.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a solicitor-advocate shall be\n(a) a senior solicitor-advocate, where he is undertaking work equivalent to that which would be done by a senior counsel in a case in the House of Lords or where the Board has authorised the employment of senior counsel under regulation 21(1)(b) or (2) below; and\n(b) a junior solicitor-advocate, where he is undertaking work equivalent to that which would be done by a junior counsel, irrespective of whether or not the Board has authorised the employment of senior counsel in the case.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 3 was amended by S.I. 1988/1171, 1991/1904 and 1993/535."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 46; section 25A was inserted by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990, section 24."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1049/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:42.057808+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."
}