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The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2018The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
The Lord Chancellor makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(3) and 41(1) to (3) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012(1).
2. The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013(2) are amended in accordance with this Part.
““AGFS Banding Document” means version 1.1 (February 2018) of the document called “Banding of Offences in the Advocates’ Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS)”, published by the Ministry of Justice(3);”;
““restriction order” has the meaning given in section 41 (power of higher courts to restrict discharge from hospital) of the Mental Health Act 1983(4);”.
“(da)a ground rules hearing ordered in a case in which a special measures direction provides for a recording to be admitted under section 28 (video recorded cross-examination or re-examination) of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999(5), and for this purpose “special measures direction” has the meaning given in section 33(1) (interpretation etc. of Chapter I) of that Act; and”.
(2) Where sentence has been deferred under section 1 (deferment of sentence) of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000(6), the fee payable to an advocate for appearing at a sentencing hearing is the fee for a deferred sentencing hearing for the category of the advocate concerned which is set out in the fixed fees table.
“hospital direction” has the meaning given in section 45A (power of higher courts to direct hospital admission) of the Mental Health Act 1983(7);
“hospital order” has the meaning given in section 37 (powers of courts to order hospital admission or guardianship) of the Mental Health Act 1983(8);
(b)at that hearing the court issues a warrant for the arrest of the assisted person under section 7(1) (liability to arrest for absconding or breaking conditions of bail) of the Bail Act 1976(9) (“the warrant”); and
33. In regulation 15(2) (specified maximum amount for class of offence) of the Criminal Legal Aid (Contribution Orders) Regulations 2013(10)—
These Regulations amend the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/435; the “2013 Regulations”). The Regulations amend the legal aid fees that are payable to advocates in criminal proceedings under the advocates’ graduated fee scheme (“AGFS”), as set out in Schedule 1 to the 2013 Regulations. The Regulations make provision for advocates’ fees to be determined according to a new banding structure for criminal offences.
Part 2 sets out the amendments to the 2013 Regulations. The principal amendments are summarised as follows.
Regulations 3 and 7 refer to the AGFS Banding Document, which sets out the bands within which criminal offences fall. The AGFS Banding Document replaces the table of offences that was in Part 7 of Schedule 1 (also see regulation 30).
Regulations 9 and 10 amend the basic fees and the daily attendance fees that are payable to advocates to reflect the new banding structure; regulation 9 also amends the formula for the purposes of calculating advocates’ graduated fees. Regulation 13 amends the fees that apply where there is a cracked trial or a guilty plea. Regulation 18 makes further provision as to the fees that apply for sentencing hearings. Regulation 24 amends the fixed fees that apply for particular types of hearings. Regulation 25 makes provision as to the fees that apply where a defendant is absent.
Under regulation 30, Part 7 of Schedule 1 to the 2013 Regulations becomes Part 7 of Schedule 2. That Part contains the table of offences which sets out the Classes of Offences that continue to apply for the purposes of the litigators’ graduated fee scheme under Schedule 2.
Part 3 (regulation 33) contains a minor consequential amendment to the Criminal Legal Aid (Contribution Orders) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/483).
Part 4 (regulation 34) contains a savings provision.
An impact assessment on the effect that these Regulations will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Legal Aid Policy Team, Access to Justice Directorate, Justice and Courts Policy Group, Ministry of Justice, 102 Petty France, London SW1H 9AJ (telephone 0203 334 4334). The impact assessment is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside these Regulations on the UK legislation website at http://www.legislation.gov.uk.