Access to Justice Act 1999 (Version in vigour from 2016-04-06 to )

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Access to Justice Act 1999
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.: In section 97 of the Children Act 1989 (privacy for children involved in certain proceedings)—
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.

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