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Scottish Legal Aid Board

Funds civil legal aid for the published combined category Immigration and asylum in Scotland. Not a Home Office contractor.

Last reviewed 10 September 2026

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Scottish Legal Aid BoardProviders of civil immigration and asylum legal aid

App2 A&A/ABWOR accounts paid £14.3m in 2024/25 (9,541 cases, avg £1,499). 16,316 intimations — not the same as cases, not people. Prior year paid £11.992m. · 2024/25

Pot: SLAB civil A&A / ABWOR · Immigration and asylum — combined category

PublishedSource: SLAB Annual Report 2024–25 Appendix 2

Scottish Legal Aid BoardProviders of civil immigration and asylum legal aid

App5 combined net £14.380m (2024/25). Separate published figure from App2 A&A gross £14.3m. Civil legal aid gross on the same category is £0.371m (113 cases) — not added into the A&A headline. · 2024/25

Pot: SLAB App5 net / civil LA

PublishedSource: SLAB Annual Report 2024–25 Appendix 5 and Appendix 2

Scottish Legal Aid BoardCriminal legal aid (person status)

694 grants, £948k in 2024/25 to persons designated asylum seeker / refugee / no status (2020/21 was £261k). Glasgow firms 346 grants, £346,766. Not the civil pot — do not add. · 2024/25

Pot: SLAB criminal / person status

PublishedSource: Released SLAB FOIs on criminal legal aid by person status

Scottish Legal Aid BoardNamed firms on SRC list

Immigration and asylum £ by firm is not held. Maguire civil £1.863m and Latta civil £1.556m are all-civil firm earnings, not an immigration tag. · 2024/25

Pot: SLAB firm earnings (all civil)

GapSource: SLAB Firm earnings 2024/25; SRC legal representatives July 2026; FOI Excel not on disclosure log

Published money

Scottish Legal Aid Board → Legal aid firms (immigration & asylum category)
£14,300,000 · 2024/25
Civil A&A/ABWOR immigration and asylum accounts paid (App2 table 2.13)
Source: SLAB Annual Report Appendix 2 — 2024/25
Scottish Legal Aid Board → Legal aid firms (immigration & asylum category)
£11,992,000 · 2023/24
Civil A&A/ABWOR immigration and asylum accounts paid (App2 table 2.13)
Source: SLAB Annual Report Appendix 2 — 2023/24
Scottish Legal Aid Board → Legal aid firms (immigration & asylum category)
£10,390,000 · 2022/23
Civil A&A/ABWOR immigration and asylum accounts paid (App2 table 2.13)
Source: SLAB Annual Report Appendix 2 — 2022/23
Scottish Legal Aid Board → Legal aid firms (immigration & asylum combined A&A+CLA)
£14,380,000 · 2024/25
Combined net cost immigration & asylum (App5 table 5.1)
Source: SLAB Annual Report Appendix 5 — 2024/25
Scottish Legal Aid Board → Legal aid firms (immigration & asylum combined A&A+CLA)
£12,030,000 · 2023/24
Combined net cost immigration & asylum (App5 table 5.1)
Source: SLAB Annual Report Appendix 5 — 2023/24
Scottish Legal Aid Board → Legal aid firms (immigration & asylum combined A&A+CLA)
£10,479,000 · 2022/23
Combined net cost immigration & asylum (App5 table 5.1)
Source: SLAB Annual Report Appendix 5 — 2022/23