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The Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989
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- 1989 No. 339
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Duty to report on refusing or giving up case
69.—(1) A solicitor shall inform the Area Director of his reasons for refusing to act or for giving up a case after being selected.
(2) Counsel, where he has been selected to act or is acting for an assisted person, shall inform the Area Director of his reasons for refusing to accept instructions or for giving up the case or shall, if required so to do, inform the Area Director of his reasons for entrusting it to another.
(3) Without prejudice to any other right of a solicitor or counsel to give up a case, any solicitor or counsel may give up an assisted person’s case in the circumstances specified in regulation 67.
(4) Where any solicitor or counsel exercises his right to give up an assisted person’s case in the circumstances specified in regulation 67, the solicitor shall make a report to the Area Director of the circumstances in which that right was exercised.
(5) Where the Area Director to whom a report is made under paragraph (4) does not discharge or revoke the assisted person’s certificate, he shall require the assisted person to select another solicitor to act for him.
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