11.1This chapter deals with work done in the housing category. You should read it in conjunction with chapters 3 and 5. Chapter 3 deals with general rules about taking on civil cases, and applies to work in housing as it does to all other work. Chapter 5 deals with the rules that apply to the conduct of all civil cases. The housing-specific rules in this chapter usually build on, rather than replace, the general rules; where they do replace the general rules in Chapters 3 and 5 we will say so. Out of scope housing cases may be funded as exceptional cases; see chapter 4 for more on exceptional funding.