Act of Sederunt (Civil Legal Aid Rules) 1987

Marking of papers of assisted person and notices to be given by such persons

3.—(1) The words “Assisted Person” shall follow the name of the assisted person on every step of process in the proceedings to which he is a party.

(2) Where a litigant is an assisted person, he shall lodge–

(a) along with the summons, petition, initial writ or other principal writ by which the cause is commenced;

(b) where he is not the party initiating the cause, on receipt by him of his legal aid certificate;

(c) in the case of a cause in the Court of Session as an appellate court, before the appeal, reclaiming motion or motion for new trial is heard; or

(d) in the case of an appeal from the sheriff to the sheriff principal, before the appeal is heard,

the legal aid certificate issued to him.

(3) Where an assisted person lodges a legal aid certificate under rule 3(2)(b), (c) or (d), he shall intimate the lodging of the certificate to all other parties to the cause.

(4) Where a person who is a party to a cause becomes, during the dependence of that cause, an assisted person, he shall forthwith lodge in process the legal aid certificate issued to him and intimate the lodging of it to all other parties to that cause.

(5) Where a person, who is a party to a cause, ceases to be an assisted person or the conditions upon which he has been granted civil legal aid have been varied, he shall forthwith serve notice of his ceasing to be an assisted person or the variation (but in the case of variation of a contribution, not the amount), as the case may be, by registered or recorded delivery letter on all other parties to the cause.