ABSTRACT
We first consider legal aid, and then more general principles of costs. For further details, consult The Civil Procedure Rules and Blackstone’s Guide to the Civil Procedure Rules.
11.2.1 General scheme
A solicitor is under a professional duty, enforceable both by disciplinary sanction and by action for damages, to consider whether a client is
eligible for legal aid and to give him appropriate advice about it.This duty is owed even if the solicitor habitually does not undertake legal aid work, and the solicitor must keep under review the possibility that a client who was not initially eligible might become so following a change in circumstances.There are essentially three different types of legal aid available in civil cases: • the Green Form Scheme; • the Advice By Way of Representation (ABWOR) scheme; • the full Civil Legal Aid Scheme.
