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What are the main differences between criminal and civil registration?

April 26, 2017Civil criminal differences main registration

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What are the main differences between criminal and civil registration?

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For criminal registration, any solicitor wanting to provide criminal legal assistance has to be registered, and he/she has to be connected to a registered firm, and if he/she moves to an unregistered firm, he/she cannot continue to provide criminal legal assistance. In the new civil scheme, only the firm is registered. Any solicitor moving from an unregistered firm to a registered firm does not need to register with the Board to provide civil legal aid and civil advice and assistance: provided the firm is on the Civil Register, the new solicitor can start to provide civil legal aid immediately. Obviously, if the firm provides both civil and criminal legal assistance, the solicitor would need to apply to be entered on the Criminal Legal Assistance Register (CLAR) before he/she can provide any criminal legal assistance.