Criminal Legal Aid Billing - All The Latest News

Introduction

This webinar will bring you up to date on all the changes that were made in the latter part of 2022.

It will concentrate on the billing of lower crime work and the billing of crown court work.

The session will also cover important points on billing contained in the new 2022 Contract Specification document which was published to coincide with the coming into force of new Contracts on the 1 October 2022 - sections 9 and 10 of the Specification documents are extremely important.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The increase in fees in relation to lower crime work
• The increase in fees for litigators - Crown Court preparation work
• The increase in fees for advocates doing Crown Court work
• The amendments made to both litigator and advocates fees by the 3 Statutory Instruments published in late 2022
• The importance of understanding the term - ‘main hearing’
• The fee increases for both litigators and advocates - differences
• Billing for consideration of ‘unused material’
• Important points taken from the very latest Crown Court Fee Guidance document - version 1.15 published in October 2022
• A consideration of section 9 of the 2022 Crime Contract Specification document when billing police station matters - October 2022
• Examples of where you might be able to claim more than one fee for dealing with the same client at the police station stage
• A consideration of section 10 of the 2022 Crime Contract Specification document when billing Magistrate’s Court matters - October 2022
• Examples of where you are able to claim a category 2 fee as opposed to a category 1 fee

This webinar was recorded on 22nd March 2023