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Fund definition What does Fund mean? In legal practice, a fund is a defined pool of money or other property that is held or set aside for a particular purpose or for specified beneficiaries. It may comprise an estate or any property held for the benefit of a person or class, and includes any fund to which a trustee or personal representative (executor/administrator) is entitled in that fiduciary capacity. The term is generally descriptive and context-dependent; where used in instruments (trust deeds, wills, court orders) or in specific regimes (for example pensions or investment schemes), its scope is determined by that document or by...
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Legal aid in care proceedings: eligibility, coverage, expert fees, interpreters, translations, residential assessments, prior authority and local authority funding issues (England and Wales)
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This Practice Note explains who qualifies for public funding in care proceedings, what that funding covers, including expert witness fees and translation charges, and what items require prior authority before they are covered. It also outlines how to seek prior authority and offers guidance on what requests are likely to be approved. Public funding for parties is administered by the Legal aid Agency (LAA), an Executive agency of the Ministry of Justice. Public funding means the relevant party’s solicitor applies to the LAA for a legal aid certificate and, if issued, may carry out work for the publicly funded client, with the solicitor’s costs and disbursements repaid by the LAA at the end of the case.
Who is eligible for public funding in care proceedings?
Automatically eligible, without any means or merits test, in a local authority application for a care or supervision order are:
- biological parents of the subject children in the care proceedings
- individuals holding parental responsibility for the subject children (for example via a child arrangements order, special guardianship order, step-parent parental responsibility order or adoption order)
These entitlements apply in local authority care or supervision order applications without a means or merits assessment for those concerned...
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