{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1987/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1987/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/384",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-children-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Employment of counsel and expert witnesses",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the prior approval of the Board shall be required–\n(a) where the proceedings are in the Court of Session, for the employment of senior counsel or of more than one junior counsel;\n(b) where the proceedings are in the sheriff court, for the employment of counsel;\n(c) for the employment of an expert witness.\n(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply where the Board, on an application made to it for retrospective approval of the employment of counsel or, as the case may be, of an expert witness, considers that the employment would have been approved by it and that there were special reasons why prior approval was not applied for.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/384/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:30:48.104577+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."
}