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July 2010 - Millennium Accounts V5.80 Released

Click here for Millennium Accounts V5.80 release information. This also includes new Word document templates for the use of the CDS7 and CDS18 in Millennium.

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Solicitor Case Manager

Latest Version: 5.4.8

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Size: 9.6Mb

Download SCM Technical Specification 114k PDF Format
Download PMS/SPS Technical Specification 307k PDF Format

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Millennium Accounts

Latest Version: 5.80.1

Millennium Accounts release 5.80.1 is now available, and mainly addresses the Statutory Legal Aid Changes that are due in July 2010.

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Click here for Legal Aid release details/downloads

Download V5.80.1 (ADO for MS SQL Server)
(large ZIP file 81Mb)

 

Download V5.80.0 (DAO for MS Access)
(large ZIP file 81Mb)

 

Download Millennium Accounts Technical Specification PDF Format

Millennium Accounts Installation / Upgrade Instructions 1.3Mb

Download Millennium Solo Technical Specification PDF Format

Download Millennium Report Viewer (SetupRepView.exe 887Kb)


Weblink

Latest Version: 1.7.9

If you are on an older version of Weblink, please contact us to arrange an update (we need to set this up on the Weblink Server). This may require updating your release of Solicitor Case Manager also.

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Legal Aid Updates

Here you will find the latest information regarding legal aid updates made to our Millennium Accounts software to comply with changes required by the Legal Services Commission.


LEGAL AID UPDATE
MILLENNIUM ACCOUNTS RELEASE V5.80.0
July 14th 2010

Millennium Accounts Version 5.80 is available for download to cater for the Criminal Legal Aid Changes effective 14th July 2010.

New LSC Form Templates

We have also provided new versions of the LSC Form templates (Word format for use in Millennium) with requirements as set out by the LSC in their July 2010 Change Guidance and LSC Forms Update documents.

Other forms are referred to in the Change Guidance but the only forms affected that Millennium uses are the CDS7 (Non-Standard Fee Contract Work Assessment Form) and CDS18 (Exceptional Case Claim Form-Crime) forms.

The following ZIP file contains the two new templates, and the official change guidance documentation, plus some instructions for setting these up in the location defined in the Millennium Document Types maintenance.

Download LSC Forms July 2010 (396Kb Zip archive)

Release Notes:

Criminal Matters

• There are 19 new Criminal Matter Types, 17-35,  which have been added to the selection of 'Criminal Matter Type' on the Matter setup tab and for their use in criminal billing.
• There are 13 new outcome codes, PL01-PL13, for use in criminal billing. 

Police Station Schemes

• There has been 1 description change + 1 date dependent fixed fee change  plus 1 Police Station name change and the 2 new Police Stations which use existing schemes.
• There are 8 date dependent Scheme number replacements/changes and 2 date dependent Schemes terminating.
Where the matter's work started on or after the 14th of July 2010 these schemes changes will take effect; this is also shown in the date element of the Unique File Number (UFN) which is available on the Legal Aid tab of the Matter record.
• When selecting a Court/Police Station/Prison the replacement Scheme number and Name are shown after the other scheme details. For information their titles include the applicable date of 14/07/2010.
• Further changes involve the date dependent closing of 2 Police Stations and these being replaced by a new one but retaining the same Scheme number and values as used by the original ones; these changes also occur on 14th of July 2010 (see details above).

Prison Law Fee Scheme

• There have been 141 prisons added to the system; they have been included, as type Prison to distinguish them from Court and Police Station, in the selection drop-down box for the default Court/Police Station, hence the title has been changed to Court/Police Station/Prison - this is on the Criminal part of the Legal Aid tab in the Practice Options. They have been included here as they are mutually exclusive in the matter stage.  
• Prison law stage reached codes PRIA, PRIB and PRIC will work on tiered fee systems where the matter's work started on or after the 14th of July 2010 rather than the hourly rate calculations used where work started before that date. This tiered fee system works on one payment rate regardless of location (i.e. no separate London/non-London rates). PRIA has a standard fee whereas PRIB and PRIC each have a lower fee with limit and an upper fee. All 3 have an exceptional case threshold value. 

 

We are dedicated to making sure our product keeps pace with the requirements for Legal Aid practitioners, you can help by giving us your views and feedback.

Sincerely
OPSIS Support Team

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Weblink Server

Weblink Online Case Information system is an application service hosted on our Weblink Server.

Click here to learn how your company web site can link to OPSIS Weblink to provide Online Case Information services to your clients.

 

Weblink Server Current Status and Service Announcements

Weblink is an Internet service designed to be available 24hrs a day, 7 days a week. However there will be times when the service is not available due to planned maintenance times (details can be see at the Service Announcements page) or inevitably, there may be problems with the server or internet access. We have a monitoring system in place to check that all is running smoothly, and that notifies OPSIS Support immediately if something does go wrong.

Customers can see the current status at any time by viewing the Weblink Server Status Page.

Weblink Service Levels

For terms and conditions of the Weblink service please refer to the Weblink Application Services License Agreement, and for specifications of the level of availability that we aim to provide see the Support Level Agreement.

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Anti-Virus

Please make sure your main server and all PC's anti-virus software is completely up to date with the latest virus definitions, by checking the Version and latest Date, and then choosing the Update option appropriate to your type of anti-virus software.

Please note that Opsis do not provide support for Anti-Virus software.

For Virus removal tools it is best to use the resources available at your vendors website resources or the Symantec Norton Anti-Virus centre where you will find up to date information, instructions and downloadable virus removal tools.

Go here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/

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Solicitors Legal Accounting, Time Recording & Case Management Software at http://www.OpsisLtd.com

OPSIS Software & Services is a trading name of OPSIS Practice Management Solutions Ltd, which is part of the IRIS Group.
IRIS and IRIS Software & Services are trade marks.
© OPSIS Practice Management Solutions Ltd 2010. All rights reserved.