Civil Legal Aid Act, 1995

Legal advice.

25.—In this Act, subject to section 26 (4), “legal advice” means any oral or written advice given by a solicitor of the Board or by a solicitor or barrister engaged by the Board for that purpose under section 11

(a) on the application of the law of the State to any particular circumstances which have arisen in relation to the person seeking the advice, and

(b) as to any steps which that person might appropriately take having regard to the application of the law of the State to those circumstances,

and includes any assistance given by such a solicitor or barrister, to any person in taking any such steps as are referred to in paragraph (b), whether by assisting a person in taking any such steps on his or her own behalf or taking any such steps (other than the institution or conduct, including defence, of civil proceedings) on the person's behalf.