Access to Justice Act 1999
Access to Justice Act 1999 (1999 c. 22)
- Access to Justice Act 1999 (1999 c. 22)
- Part I Legal Services Commission
- Commission
- 1 Legal Services Commission.
- 2 Power to replace Commission with two bodies.
- 3 Powers of Commission.
- Community Legal Service
- 4 Community Legal Service.
- 5 Funding of services.
- 6 Services which may be funded.
- 7 Individuals for whom services may be funded.
- 8 Code about provision of funded services.
- 8A Funding code: pilot provisions
- 9 Procedure relating to funding code.
- 10 Terms of provision of funded services.
- 11 Costs in funded cases.
- 11A Pilot schemes
- Criminal Defence Service
- 12 Criminal Defence Service.
- 13 Advice and assistance.
- 14 Representation.
- 15 Selection of representative.
- 16 Code of conduct.
- 17 Terms of provision of funded services.
- 17A Contribution orders
- 18 Funding.
- 18A Pilot schemes
- Supplementary
- 19 Foreign law.
- 20 Restriction of disclosure of information.
- 21 Misrepresentation etc.
- 22 Position of service providers and other parties etc.
- 23 Guidance.
- 24 Consequential amendments.
- 25 Orders, regulations and directions.
- 26 Interpretation.
- Part II Other funding of legal services
- Conditional fee and litigation funding agreements
- 27 Conditional fee agreements.
- 28 Litigation funding agreements.
- Costs
- 29 Recovery of insurance premiums by way of costs.
- 30 Recovery where body undertakes to meet costs liabilities.
- 31 Rules as to costs.
- Legal aid in Scotland
- 32 Regulations about financial limits in certain proceedings.
- 33 Recipients of disabled person’s tax credit.
- 34 References by Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.
- Part III Provision of legal services
- Legal Services Consultative Panel
- 35 Replacement of ACLEC by Consultative Panel.
- Rights of audience and rights to conduct litigation
- 36 Barristers and solicitors.
- 37 Rights of audience: employed advocates.
- 38 Employees of Legal Services Commission.
- 39 Rights of audience: change of authorised body.
- 40 Rights to conduct litigation: barristers and legal executives.
- 41 Authorised bodies: designation and regulations and rules.
- 42 Overriding duties of advocates and litigators.
- 43 Minor and consequential amendments.
- Barristers and solicitors
- 44 Barristers employed by solicitors etc.
- 45 Fees on application for appointment as Queen’s Counsel.
- 46 Bar practising certificates.
- 47 Fees for solicitors’ practising certificates.
- 48 Law Society’s powers in relation to conduct of solicitors etc.
- Legal Services Ombudsman
- 49 Powers of Ombudsman.
- 50 Funding of Ombudsman by professional bodies.
- Legal Services Complaints Commissioner
- 51 Commissioner.
- 52 Commissioner’s functions.
- Public notaries
- 53 Abolition of scriveners’ monopoly.
- Part IV Appeals, courts, judges and court proceedings
- Appeals
- 54 Permission to appeal.
- 55 Second appeals.
- 56 Power to prescribe alternative destination of appeals.
- 57 Assignment of appeals to Court of Appeal.
- 58 Criminal appeals: minor amendments.
- Civil division of Court of Appeal
- 59 Composition.
- 60 Calling into question of incidental decisions.
- High Court
- 61 Cases stated by Crown Court.
- 62 Power to vary committal in default.
- 63 Criminal causes and matters.
- 64 Contempt of court.
- 65 Habeas corpus.
- Crown Court
- 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 67 Time limits where accused sent for trial.
- Judges etc.
- 68 Judges holding office in European or international courts.
- 69 Vice-president of Queen’s Bench Division.
- 70 Registrar of civil appeals.
- Court proceedings
- 71 Adjournment of inquest in event of judicial inquiry.
- 72 Reporting of proceedings relating to children.
- 73 Power to allow children to attend criminal proceedings.
- Part V Magistrates and magistrates’ courts
- Territorial organisation
- 74 Commission areas.
- 75 Petty sessions areas.
- 76 Areas: consequential provision.
- 77 Youth courts.
- Justices
- 78 Unification and renaming of stipendiary bench.
- 79 Justices not to sit on committal for sentence.
- 80 Jurisdiction over offences outside area.
- Magistrates’ courts committees
- 81 Areas outside Greater London.
- 82 Constitution of committees outside Greater London.
- 83 Greater London Magistrates’ Courts Authority.
- 84 Standard goods and services.
- 85 Power to direct implementation of inspectors’ recommendations.
- 86 Code of conduct.
- Justices’ chief executives, justices’ clerks and staff
- 87 Qualification for appointment as chief executive.
- 88 Role of chief executives.
- 89 Independence of clerks and staff exercising legal functions.
- 90 Transfer of clerks’ functions to chief executives.
- 91 Accounting etc. functions of chief executives.
- Execution of warrants
- 92 Civilian enforcement officers.
- 93 Approved enforcement agencies.
- 94 Disclosure of information for enforcing warrants.
- 95 Warrants of detention.
- 96 Execution by person not in possession of warrant.
- 97 Cessation of warrants.
- Part VI Immunity and indemnity
- Justices and their clerks
- 98 Justices and clerks: immunity from costs.
- 99 Justices and clerks: indemnity.
- 100 Assistant justices’ clerks: immunity from action.
- General Commissioners of income tax and their clerks
- 101 General Commissioners: immunity from action.
- 102 General Commissioners: immunity from costs and expenses.
- 103 General Commissioners and clerks: indemnity.
- Coroners
- 104 Indemnity.
- Part VII Supplementary
- 105 Transitional provisions and savings.
- 106 Repeals and revocations.
- 107 Crown application.
- 108 Commencement.
- 109 Extent.
- 110 Short title.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Legal Services Commission
- Incorporation and status
- Tenure of members
- Members’ interests
- Remuneration of members
- Staff
- Funding of costs relating to administration et ceteralaetc.
- Proceedings
- Provision of information
- Annual report
- Annual plan
- Accounts and audit
- Instruments
- SCHEDULE 2 Community Legal Service: excluded services
- SCHEDULE 3 Criminal Defence Service: right to representation
- Individuals to whom right may be granted
- Individuals to whom right may be provisionally granted
- Grant of right by court
- Grant of right by commission
- Financial eligibility
- Appeals
- Criteria for grant of right
- Information requests
- Restrictions on disclosure
- Paragraphs 6 and 7: supplementary
- Schedule 3A Motor vehicle orders
- Introductory
- Further general powers to regulate motor vehicle orders
- Applications
- Matters of which court to be satisfied
- Ownership of motor vehicles
- Motor vehicles used by disabled persons
- Restrictions on making vehicle sale orders
- Interpretation
- The Public Records Act 1958 (c.51)
- The Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (c.13)
- The Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (c.19)
- The Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c.54)
- The Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c.32)
- The Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c.62)
- The Solicitors Act 1974 (c.47)
- The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c.24)
- The Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c.25)
- The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c.65)
- The Race Relations Act 1976 (c.74)
- The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43)
- The Senior Courts Act 1981
- The Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48)
- The Telecommunications Act 1984 (c.12)
- The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c.23)
- The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c.60)
- The Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c.61)
- The Housing Act 1985 (c.68)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c.38)
- The Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act 1988 (c.21)
- The Housing Act 1988 (c.50)
- The Children Act 1989 (c.41)
- The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c.53)
- The Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)
- The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c.25)
- The Family Law Act 1996 (c.27)
- The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c.37)
- The Disability Rights Commission Act 1999 (c. 17)
- SCHEDULE 6 Rights of audience and rights to conduct litigation
- The Solicitors Act 1974 (c.47)
- The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41)
- SCHEDULE 7 Powers of Law Society
- Monitoring of compliance with rules
- Bank and building society accounts
- Intervention for breach of rules on practice, conduct and discipline
- Solicitors’ employees and consultants
- Power to examine files
- Payment of costs by solicitor under investigation
- Registered foreign lawyers
- SCHEDULE 8 Legal Services Complaints Commissioner
- Provision for discharge of functions
- Delegation of functions
- Remuneration
- Staff
- Annual and other reports
- Accounts and audit
- Financial provisions
- Parliamentary disqualification
- Parliamentary Commissioner
- Acting Commissioner
- SCHEDULE 10 Commission areas and petty sessions areas
- The Parochial Libraries Act 1708 (c.14)
- The Distress for Rent Act 1737 (c.19)
- The Inclosure Act 1773 (c.81)
- The Burial Ground Act 1816 (c.141)
- The Inclosure and Drainage (Rates) Act 1833 (c.35)
- The Ordnance Survey Act 1841 (c.30)
- The Geological Survey Act 1845 (c.63)
- The Inclosure Act 1845 (c.118)
- The Hares Act 1848 (c.29)
- The Fairs Act 1873 (c.37)
- The Commons Act 1876 (c.56)
- The Municipal Corporations Act 1882 (c.50)
- The Local Government Act 1888 (c.41)
- The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c.12)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c.58)
- The Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949 (c.55)
- The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (c.97)
- The Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951 (c.65)
- The Prison Act 1952 (c.52)
- The Maintenance Orders Act 1958 (c.39)
- The Licensing Act 1964 (c.26)
- The Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c.42)
- The Sunday Theatre Act 1972 (c.26)
- The Solicitors Act 1974 (c.47)
- The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43)
- The Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c.14)
- The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c.27)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c.53)
- The Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14)
- The Probation Service Act 1993 (c.47)
- The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19)
- The Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c.25)
- SCHEDULE 11 Unification and renaming of stipendiary bench
- The Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (c.47)
- The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840 (c.84)
- The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843 (c.86)
- The London Hackney Carriages Act 1850 (c.7)
- The London Hackney Carriage Act 1853 (c.33)
- The Regulation of Railways Act 1871 (c.78)
- The Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897 (c.26)
- The Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908 (c.53)
- The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c.12)
- The Local Government Act 1948 (c.26)
- The Metropolitan Magistrates’ Courts Act 1959 (c.45)
- The Licensing Act 1964 (c.26)
- The Backing of Warrants (Republic of Ireland) Act 1965 (c.45)
- The Courts Act 1971 (c.23)
- The Local Government Act 1972 (c.70)
- The Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c.15)
- The Juries Act 1974 (c.23)
- The Solicitors Act 1974 (c.47)
- The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c.24)
- The Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c.25)
- The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43)
- The Extradition Act 1989 (c.33)
- The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41)
- The Local Government Act 1992 (c.19)
- The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (c. 8)
- The Probation Service Act 1993 (c.47)
- The Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c.25)
- The Public Works Loans Act 1965 (c.63)
- The National Loans Act 1968 (c.13)
- The Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c.53)
- The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42)
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- The Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c.53)
- The Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14)
- The Justices of the Peace Act 1997 (c.25)
- SCHEDULE 13 Functions transferred to justices’ chief executives
- The London Hackney Carriages Act 1843 (c.86)
- The Evidence Act 1851 (c.99)
- The Criminal Procedure Act 1865 (c.18)
- The Prevention of Crimes Act 1871 (c.112)
- The Fairs Act 1873 (c.37)
- The Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907 (c.53)
- The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 (c.33)
- The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c.12)
- The Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (c.37)
- The Army Act 1955 (c.18)
- The Air Force Act 1955 (c.19)
- The Naval Discipline Act 1957 (c.53)
- The Maintenance Orders Act 1958 (c.39)
- The Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 (c.2)
- The Licensing Act 1964 (c.26)
- The Gaming Act 1968 (c.65)
- The Late Night Refreshment Houses Act 1969 (c.53)
- The Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c.54)
- The Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c.32)
- The Immigration Act 1971 (c.77)
- The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c.18)
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c.18)
- The Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c.62)
- The Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 (c.51)
- The Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976 (c.32)
- The Adoption Act 1976 (c.36)
- The Bail Act 1976 (c.63)
- The Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 (c.22)
- The Licensed Premises (Exclusion of Certain Persons) Act 1980 (c.32)
- The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43)
- The Highways Act 1980 (c.66)
- The Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (c.63)
- The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c.27)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48)
- The Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 (c.24)
- The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c.60)
- The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (c.23)
- The Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 (c.57)
- The Insolvency Act 1986 (c.45)
- The Public Order Act 1986 (c.64)
- The Coroners Act 1988 (c.13)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c.33)
- The Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c.53)
- The Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 (c.4)
- The Football Spectators Act 1989 (c.37)
- The Children Act 1989 (c.41)
- The Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act 1991 (c.25)
- The Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c.53)
- The Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)
- The Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c.9)
- The Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48)
- The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (c.37)
- The Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995 (c.13)
- The Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c.21)
- The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.46)
- The Reserve Forces Act 1996 (c.14)
- The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c.37)
- SCHEDULE 14 Transitional provisions and savings
- Part I General
- Part II Legal Services Commission
- Replacement of Legal Aid Board by Legal Services Commission
- Winding-down of Legal Aid Board
- Abolition of Legal Aid Board
- Further provision for Legal Aid Board and Legal Services Commission
- Funding of representation by Lord Chancellor
- Part III Legal services
- Conditional fee agreements
- Legal aid in Scotland
- Abolition of ACLEC
- Regulations and rules for barristers and solicitors
- Existing rights of solicitors in certain Crown Court centres
- Authorised bodies
- Part IV Reporting of proceedings about children
- Part V Magistrates and magistrates’ courts
- Commission areas
- Petty sessions areas
- Lord Mayor and aldermen of City of London
- District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts): appointment
- District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts): pensions
- District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts): retirement
- District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts): legal aid
- Committals for sentence
- Youth courts
- Magistrates’ courts committee areas
- Magistrates’ courts committees in Greater London
- The Greater London Magistrates’ Courts Authority
- Schemes for transfer of property etc. to GLMCA
- Stamp duty on transfer schemes
- Transfer schemes: stamp duty land tax
- Continuing provision of court-houses, accommodation etc
- Pensions of inner London court staff
- Justices’ chief executives
- SCHEDULE 15 Repeals and revocations
- Part I Legal Services Commission
- Part II Provision of legal services
- Part III Appeals, courts, judges and court proceedings
- Part IV Enforcement of community orders
- Part V Magistrates and magistrates’ courts
- Part VI Immunity and indemnity
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