This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I.1993/534 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

1994 No. 1017 (S.49)

LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, SCOTLAND

The Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1994

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 36(1) and (2)(a) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 5th May 1994.

Interpretation2

In these Regulations–

  • “the Act” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;

  • “the principal Regulations” means the Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Regulations 1987(2).

Application3

These Regulations shall apply only in relation to any case where an application for legal aid under section 29 of the Act(3) is granted on or after 5th May 1994.

Amendment of the principal Regulations4

In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation)–

a

at the beginning, there shall be inserted “(1)”;

b

for the definitions of “counsel” and of “junior counsel” and “junior”, there shall be substituted–

  • “counsel” includes a solicitor-advocate;

  • “junior counsel” includes a junior solicitor-advocate;

c

for the definition of “rights of audience solicitor” to the end, there shall be substituted–

  • “right of audience” means in relation to a solicitor, a right of audience in the Court of Session, the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which a solicitor has by virtue of section 25A (rights of audience in specified courts) of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980(4);

  • “senior counsel” includes a senior solicitor-advocate, except in paragraph (2) below;

  • “solicitor-advocate” means a solicitor, whether instructed by another solicitor or not, when and only when he is exercising his right of audience or acting in connection with the exercise of such a right and “junior solicitor-advocate” and “senior solicitor-advocate” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph (2) below;

and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a solicitor shall not include a solicitor when acting as a solicitor-advocate.

2

For the purposes of these Regulations, a solicitor-advocate shall be–

a

a senior solicitor-advocate, where he is undertaking work equivalent to that which would be done by a senior counsel in a case where the Board has authorised the employment of senior counsel under regulation 10(1)(a) or (2) below; and

b

a junior solicitor-advocate, where he is undertaking work equivalent to that which would be done by a junior counsel, whether or not the Board has -authorised the employment of senior counsel in the case.

Revocation5

Regulation 3 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1993(5) is hereby revoked.

Fraser of CarmyllieMinister of State, Scottish OfficeSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

These Regulations substitute in the Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Regulations 1987 new definitions relating to solicitors who have a right of audience in the Court of Session, the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Regulation 3 of the Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I.1993/534) which inserted defective definitions relating to such solicitors is revoked.