Can I submit an SU2 before submitting an application for civil legal aid?
No, you can use section C of the solicitor’s form to intimate to us special urgency steps already taken under Regulation 18(1)(a). When doing so, you do not need to complete a separate SU2. The only circumstances in which an SU2 will be used is when you have completed and submitted a solicitor’s application form and then require to take special urgency steps under Regulation 18(1)(a) before we have notified you of the decision in respect of the application. You cannot submit an SU2 before the application for civil legal aid is submitted. Regulation 18(2) allows you to commence work of a certain nature and then to inform the Board that they have done this work.
