These documents supplement the quarterly legal aid statistics bulletin by providing a comprehensive guide to the statistics, data and how to use them.
They provide a brief background overview of the legal aid system including recent reforms, and it also covers:
explanations of terminology
data sources and quality
revisions policy
users and uses of the statistics
other explanatory notes
lists available data
guidance for working with data
quality statement
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User guide and Index updated for the July to September 2020 edition of the legal aid statistics also HTML version of Quality statement and User Guide added
User guide and Index updated for the April to June 2020 edition of the legal aid statistics
User guide and Index updated for the January to March 2020 edition of the legal aid statistics
User guide and Index updated for the October to December 2019 edition of the legal aid statisticsSeparate Quality statement (previously included in the user guide) published
User guide and Index updated for the July to September 2019 edition of the legal aid statistics
User guide and Index updated for the April to June 2019 edition of the legal aid statistics
