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These Regulations amend the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 by—setting out the relevant considerations and options available to courts when making or amending a legal aid order providing for the services of a Queen’s Counsel or for more than one counsel;introducing a power to provide the assisted person with the services of three counsel where the prosecution is brought by the Serious Fraud Office;imposing on each legal representative the duty to keep under review the continuing need for the services of more than one counsel, andintroducing a requirement to notify the court where a legal representative is of opinion that more than one counsel is no longer required.

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