Actions against the police etc - £6,000

Community care - £3,500

Immigration and asylum- £4,500

Mental health - £5,000

Special Children Act cases - £9,000 The new higher limits apply only to substantive cases within the category, not to judicial review. Certificates for judicial review cases, and for categories not listed above, remain at existing default limits. The process for applying to amend a costs limit hasn't changed, but the LAA hopes fewer applications will be necessary. Emergency certificates remain at a default limit of £1,350 - though you can exercise the delegated function to amend the cost limit up to £10,000 as long as it is to do urgent work and the emergency certificate hasn't expired or been subsumed into a substantive one.