The Scottish Legal Aid Board (Employment of Solicitors to Provide Criminal Legal Assistance) Regulations 1998
These Regulations make provision for the employment of solicitors by the Scottish Legal Aid Board to provide criminal legal assistance. The Regulations provide that solicitors employed by the Scottish Legal Aid Board are to be used in the Sheriff Court district of Edinburgh (regulation 3(a)) and authorise the Scottish Legal Aid Board to require as many persons seeking criminal legal assistance in the Sheriff Court district of Edinburgh to use the solicitors employed by it as it considers appropriate (regulation 3(b)). They also make minor consequential modifications as to the operation of The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996 and the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1996 as they apply where solicitors employed directly by the Scottish Legal Aid Board are giving criminal legal assistance.