Criminal Legal Aid Billing - New Rates & Fees from 30 September 2022
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Course Outline
Introduction
This webinar will guide you through the increases in the legal aid rates for determinations that the defendant qualifies for legal aid made on or after 30 September 2022.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- The percentage increases for police station work and the ‘escape thresholds’
- The increases in the hourly rates for Magistrates’ Court work and the new standard fees
- The new fees for Litigators dealing with Crown Court work - the increases seem to vary dependent upon the type of case - guilty plea - cracked trial - trial
- The new fees for Advocates under the AGFS (Advocates Graduated Fee Scheme)
- The new ‘sending’ fee
- The new fee for ‘consideration of unused material’
- The relevant Statutory Instruments involved
- Fees for pre-charge engagement
- New fees for appeals against sentence - appeals against conviction and committals for sentence
- New fees for confiscation hearings
- Litigator fees for proceedings in the Court of Appeal
- Abolition of the fixed fee for guilty pleas in elected cases
This webinar was recorded on 20th September 2022
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