Legal Aid Commission Act 1976
Legal Aid (Unassisted Persons Costs) Rules 1984
Reprint 1: The rules as at 5 December 2003
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Legal Aid (Unassisted Persons Costs) Rules 1984
1. Citation1
2. Application1
3.Interpretation1
4. Modification of section 45(1) of the Act2
5. Application to be filed2
6. Entry of appearance3
7. Listing of application subject to compliance4
8. Applicant to apply for time and place of hearing4
Schedule5
Notes
Compilation table8
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Legal Aid Commission Act 1976
Legal Aid (Unassisted Persons Costs) Rules 1984
These rules may be cited as the Legal Aid (Unassisted Persons Costs) Rules 1984 1.
These rules apply to and in relation to any application made or sought to be made under section 45 of the Act and in relation to any application made under that section that is pending at the time that these rules come into operation.
In these rules, unless the contrary intention appears —
“application” means an application by an unassisted person for an order;
“order” means an order of a court or tribunal made under section 45 of the Act that the whole or any part of the costs of an unassisted person be paid to him by the Commission;
“rule” means one of these rules;
“the Act” means the Legal Aid Commission Act 1976.
4. Modification of section 45(1) of the Act
The provisions of section 45(1) of the Act in their application to an unassisted person who is concerned in a proceeding in a fiduciary, representative or official capacity are modified so that they apply to him only in that capacity and for the purposes of determining whether an order should be made in a case in which such an unassisted person is a party the court or tribunal shall have regard to —
(a)the value of the property, estate or fund out of which the unassisted person is entitled to be indemnified;
(b)the resources of the persons, if any, who are beneficially interested in that property, estate or fund; and
(c)if there is no property, estate or fund available from which the unassisted person can be indemnified, the resources of the unassisted person.
(1)An application shall be in the form of Form 1 in the Schedule and shall be filed with the court or tribunal in which the proceedings in respect of which the order is sought took place.
(2)An application shall be accompanied by —
(a)a certified copy of the order establishing the liability of the assisted person to pay the costs of the unassisted person;
(b)except where the amount of the costs for which the assisted person is liable has been fixed by the court or tribunal in the order, a certified copy of the bill of costs of the unassisted person and of the taxing officer’s allocatur; and
(c)a statement verified by a statutory declaration setting out the facts upon which the applicant intends to rely so as to satisfy the court or tribunal that —
(i)in all the circumstances of the case it is just and equitable that the order should be made; and
(ii)the unassisted person would suffer undue financial hardship if the order were not made.
(1)Where a copy of an application is served on him the Director shall within 21 days of such service enter an appearance on the application.
(2)An appearance for the purposes of subrule (1) shall be made by filing a memorandum of appearance in the form of Form 2 in the Schedule in the court or tribunal and in such memorandum of appearance the Director shall state whether he consents to or opposes the making of the order applied for.
(3)Where in a memorandum of appearance the Director states that an application will be opposed the Director shall in the memorandum of appearance specify —
(a)whether or not the applicant is required to be present at the hearing to present himself for cross‑examination; and
(b)whether or not the applicant is required to produce documents or papers for inspection or copying or both by the Director prior to the hearing of the application.
(5)A copy of a memorandum of appearance shall be served on the applicant as soon as may be after the filing of the memorandum with the court or tribunal.
(6)Where in a memorandum of appearance the Director specifies that he requires the production of any documents or papers for inspection or copying or both the applicant shall make such documents and papers available to the Director at an office of the Commission or a place not more than 5 km from the court or tribunal and shall notify the Director in writing of the place where, during ordinary office hours, such documents may be inspected.
(7)Where the Director requires any document to be copied the applicant shall supply such copy to the Director as soon as reasonably practicable.
7. Listing of application subject to compliance
Where the Director has in a memorandum of appearance opposed the making of an order and specified pursuant to rule 6(3)(b) that he requires the production of any documents or papers for inspection and copying the applications shall not be listed for hearing by the court or tribunal unless the proper officer of the court or tribunal is satisfied that the applicant has complied with such requirement.
8. Applicant to apply for time and place of hearing
An applicant shall apply to the court or tribunal for a time and place of the hearing of his application and when the time and place of the hearing has been fixed the applicant shall forthwith notify the Director of such time and place.
