[2013] EWCA Crim 2424

It was incumbent on all solicitors to exercise the most scrupulous degree of care and integrity when operating the self-certification scheme promulgated by the Legal Aid Agency. The Agency should review the operation of the scheme, given that it had been abused in the instant case, where a wholly unmeritorious application for leave to appeal against conviction had been made many years out of time.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Thomas LCJ, Griffith Williams J, Judge Goss QC (Recorder of Newcastle))

05/12/2013