Explanatory Notes

Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011

2011 asp 1

6 January 2011

Commentary on Sections

Part 19 – Legal Aid and Advice

Section 191 – Legal aid and advice
New Part 5a – Children’s Legal Aid
Section 28H – Board to establish review procedures

293.Section 28H(1) places a duty on SLAB to establish a procedure for reviewing their refusal of an application for children’s legal aid. Subsection (2) obliges SLAB to establish a procedure for reviewing any conditions which it imposes in relation to a grant of children’s legal aid under section 28G. Like section 28G, section 28H replicates the effect of provisions which were to be inserted into section 29 of the 1986 Act by virtue of section 72 of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007.