Crown Court Billing for Criminal Law Advocates

Introduction

This webinar presented by Colin Beaumont will concentrate on the billing of Crown Court work in your capacity as Advocate - you may be Counsel or you may be a solicitor exercising Higher Rights. More and more solicitors are exercising their Higher Rights and appearing at the Crown Court. Someone within the firm will therefore have to bill the case, a task which traditionally was done by the clerk in chambers when Counsel dealt with the matter.

Billing the case from the perspective of Advocate is very different from billing the case from the perspective of Litigator.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The regime for Advocates: The Banding of Offences in the Advocates’ Graduated Fee Scheme
• Claiming Special Preparation as Advocate - you may claim for things that a Litigator would not be able to
• Claiming for perusal of Unused Material. The Basic Fee - hourly rates thereafter. The amounts claimable and where to find them
• How many fees may you claim? How many indictments are there?
• Your claim as the Advocate where the case has been committed for sentence to the Crown Court and the judge wants a Newton hearing
• The fee for the first day of trial and fees thereafter
• The importance of the correct completion of the work log where such a document is required
• Trials and re-trials where you are the same Advocate - working out the percentage of your fee on the retrial
• The fixed fees claimable as Advocate on top of your graduated fee
• Proceeds of Crime work - your claim as Advocate. It is very different from the claim of the Litigator
• Understanding when a trial starts
• Understanding when you can claim a cracked trial fee as opposed to a guilty plea fee

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 26th February 2027

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