Section 25A of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986: meaning of “criminal legal assistance”
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3. In section 25A of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986(1), references to criminal legal assistance do not relate to advice and assistance provided to a client in relation to an application for an order for recovery of documents, in connection with criminal proceedings against another person, in which the documents sought include medical or other sensitive documents relating to the client.
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Section 25A was inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c.48), section 49.