CLS news

The Family guidance has been revised to provide further assistance on how the reporting codes should be used to claim for family work. 

It gives practical examples on how the codes should be applied. In addition it re-iterates what work should be carried out within the current definition of Level 1 and Level 2.

From 15 February 2010, under the Tribunal and Courts Enforcement Act 2007, changes will take effect to the structure of the asylum and immigration appeals tribunal. 

In readiness for these changes, the LSC has amended the Immigration section of the civil codes guidance replacing all references to the AIT and Review & Reconsideration, with amended references to the new First Tier and Upper Tribunal.

Given the likely impact that changes to the codes would have had on providers and software vendors, we have taken the decision to not change the codes themselves or their titles at this time.  We have however amended the description of the appropriate codes to reflect the new tribunal structure.

Where appropriate we have highlighted such changes in bold below the title of the code itself.

We have also included examples of the continued use of these codes when reporting matters relating to appeals under the previous appeal structure.

For more information

Please visit our civil forms pages to view the revised guidance for family and immigration.