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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-legal-aid-merits-criteria-regulations-2012/regulation-52",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111530016",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (Merits Criteria) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-legal-aid-merits-criteria-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Criteria for determinations for full representation in relation to mental capacity proceedings",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of a relevant determination the criteria in—\n(a) regulation 39 (standard criteria for determinations for legal representation) and regulations 41(a) and (b), 42 and 43 (criteria for determinations for full representation) apply;\n(b) regulations 41(c) and 44 (multi-party action damages criterion) do not apply; and\n(c) paragraph (2) apply.\n(2) The Director must be satisfied that—\n(a) the Court of Protection has ordered, or is likely to order, an oral hearing; and\n(b) it is necessary for the individual to be provided with full representation in the proceedings.\n(3) In this regulation, a relevant determination is a determination for full representation in relation to any matter described in paragraph 5(1)(c) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act (mental capacity) in proceedings before the Court of Protection to the extent that they relate to—\n(a) a person’s right to life;\n(b) a person’s liberty or physical safety;\n(c) a person’s medical treatment (within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1983);\n(d) a person’s capacity to marry, to enter into a civil partnership or to enter into sexual relations; or\n(e) a person’s right to family life.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c.20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111530016/regulation/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:51:11.008459+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."
}