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The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has introduced a new checklist for use with CLA EC-CLAIM 1 on civil escape case billing in CLA cases to help ensure payment is as quickly as possible when billing for work in this area and for consistency with the approach adopted in the other escape case categories.
These checklists are relied on by LAA processing teams and were introduced to try and reduce the number of rejected claims. But they are also useful for providers because they detail:-
There are no major changes to the case submission requirements.
The introduction of the checklists for CLA escape cases:-
LAA recommend that the checklists are used as a pre-submission check. If the checklist is correctly used the required information will be submitted for assessment and the matter will not be rejected.
If the checklist is not used and your claim is rejected, you can use the checklist to help ensure that there will be no further rejects.
