SEEKING YOUR VIEWS

We continue to identify and respond to the opportunities for change and the needs of our stakeholders and customers to deliver our plans. We adopt a common approach to delivering our objectives. This includes working in partnership and consulting with applicants, assisted persons, opponents, solicitors, advocates and others with an interest in legal aid and access to justice.

We have begun to seek input to our plans through seeking responses to proposals and draft materials. We will be further developing our online consultation in the coming year.

You can access current issues where we are seeking input from this page. It will also provide an archive of those issues where we sought views, and the period to respond is now closed.

Current issues where we are seeking your views and input

• There are no current consultations.

Archive of previous issues where we sought views and input

• Consultation - Application of the financial eligibility test for solemn legal aid - consultation paper, appendix, letter to stakeholders, letter to solicitors - closed 14 May 2010

• Read about the Scottish Executive consultation on reform of civil advice and assistance
  
• Freedom of Information draft Publication scheme - closed 29 October 2004
  
• Proposals for the Review of Summary Criminal Legal Assistance - closed 16 July 2004 - see below for a report on responses received
• Consultation on Revisions to the Code of Practice for Criminal Legal Assistance - closed 19 January 2007 - see below for a report on responses received
• Reform of summary criminal legal assistance - consultation issued by the Scottish Government and Scottish Legal Aid Board - closed February 2008 - read more
  

Consultation responses

You can read about:

• responses the Board has made to consultations
• summaries of responses made to Board consultations - these include:
  • Proposals for the review of summary criminal legal assistance - consultation document and responses received report - March 2005
  • Consultation on Revisions to the Code of Practice for Criminal Legal Assistance - January 2007