OpenLegislation

Explanatory note

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations deal with aspects of the Community Legal Service established by Part I of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (“the Act”) relating to costs, and, in particular:

(a)

the giving of security for costs (regulation 6);

(b)

the amount of a funded client’s resources for the purposes of section 11(1) of the Act (regulation 7);

(c)

the procedure for quantifying a costs order against a funded client and for the making of a costs order against the Legal Services Commission (regulations 8 to 13);

(d)

the determination of costs under an order for costs in favour of a funded client (regulations 15 and 16);

(e)

the receipt and application of property and costs recovered on behalf of a funded client (regulations 18 to 24).

These Regulations also make provision for the termination of the retainer of a supplier of funded services, upon the withdrawal of funding (regulation 4).