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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-regulations-1989/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/340",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Refusal of advice and assistance",
  "text": "A solicitor may for good cause either refuse to accept an application for advice and assistance or (having accepted an application) decline to give, or to continue to give advice and assistance and may, if he thinks fit, refuse to disclose his reasons for doing so to the client or person seeking advice and assistance on his behalf; but he shall give the Area Director such information about such a refusal as the Area Director may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/340/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:42.172432+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."
}