The Community Legal Service (Costs) Regulations 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations deal with aspects of the Community Legal Service established by Part I of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (“the Act”) relating to costs, and, in particular:

(a) the giving of security for costs (regulation 6);

(b) the amount of a funded client’s resources for the purposes of section 11(1) of the Act (regulation 7);

(c) the procedure for quantifying a costs order against a funded client and for the making of a costs order against the Legal Services Commission (regulations 8 to 13);

(d) the determination of costs under an order for costs in favour of a funded client (regulations 15 and 16);

(e) the receipt and application of property and costs recovered on behalf of a funded client (regulations 18 to 24).

These Regulations also make provision for the termination of the retainer of a supplier of funded services, upon the withdrawal of funding (regulation 4).