Publications

The 'LSANI guidance note on COVID-19 Interim Payment Scheme and furloughing of staff' provides clarity in relation to the submission of payment requests on LAMS and informs suppliers that the Agency must have visibility over all practitioners who have been furloug

The 'LSANI - Hardship Payments Policy' sets out the policy relating to hardship payments and how the Agency will consider applications for hardship payments, submitted by providers of legal aid services who are deemed to be in severe financial hardship, to provide

ICOS Case Tracking Online Service User Guide

ICOS Case Tracking Online Service User Guide

Circular 'LSA 12-2020 - High Cost Cases – Estimated Costs of any case in excess of £100,000'  invites practitioners to provide estimated costs for ongoing cases that are likely to be high cost cases; that is cases which will result in costs o

Key messages for legal aid suppliers for July 2020.

LSANI guidance on how to go about the process of requesting urgent appeals to be tabled before the appeals panel.

Circular 'LSA 11/2020 - Case Management - Implementation of Case Closure in the Legal Aid Management System (LAMS)' will be of interest to all practitioners as it sets out the Legal Services Agency’s (Agency) approach to the closure of cases in LAMS.

This guidance issued to the Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland (the Agency) under rule 4(1) of the Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005 (the 2005 Rules).

The 'LSANI guidance - costs for excessive photocopying in the Crown court' applies to cases that are ongoing before the Crown court in Northern Ireland, where the defendant is in receipt of a criminal aid certificate.

The bulletin presents data on first time entrants to the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland for the year 1 April 2018 – 31 March 2019.  In 2018/19, first time entrants to the justice system constituted 27.2% of all those dealt with at court or by formal div

EJO Debt Register User Guide - Pay As You Go Users

Key messages for legal aid suppliers for June 2020.

The Gillen Review into the law and procedures in serious sexual offences in Northern Ireland.

AccessNI performance report April 2019 - March 2020

Please click on link below to access the "Covid 19 – Remote Hearing Protcol" document

The Digital Justice Strategy 2020-2025 has recently been approved by the Criminal Justice Board.  The Criminal Justice Board is chaired by the Minister of Justice and members include the Lord Chief Justice, the Chief Constable, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the

The bulletin presents prosecutions and convictions and out of court disposals data for 2019 for magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court, disaggregated by age and gender.

Circular ‘LSA Circular 10-2020 - Requesting payment in respect of cases where an arrest warrant has issued’ provides advice on how practitioners should submit payment requests under The Magistrates' Courts and County Court Appeals (Criminal Legal Aid)

Written Ministerial Statement by Naomi Long, MLA Minister of Justice

Commencement of the Criminal Finance Act 2017 and the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019 in respect of relevant provisions relating to Northern Ireland