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The Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003
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These Regulations amend the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989 (“the 1989 Regulations”) to provide a new scheme for the payment of civil legal aid fees to solicitors.
Regulation 5 amends regulation 5 of the 1989 Regulations to provide that a solicitor’s fees in relation to certain proceedings shall be paid in accordance with Schedules 5, 6 and 7 (inserted by regulation 11 and the Schedule).
Schedule 5 updates, with minor amendments, the table of fees set out in Schedule 3 to the 1989 Regulations. This table applies to fees for work done in the Court of Session, certain other proceedings mentioned at regulation 5(3) of the 1989 Regulations and the proceedings listed at Schedule 7.
Chapters I and II of Schedule 6 set out new tables of fees, expressed in units, for work done in relation to certain proceedings in the sheriff court. Regulation 5 of these Regulations inserts a new regulation 5(2A) into the 1989 Regulations which fixes the value of a unit at £19.
Regulation 5 inserts a new regulation 5(2C) and (2D) into the 1989 Regulations, which provides for a fee additional to the unit fee allowable under Chapters I and II of Schedule 6 where certain circumstances, set out at Chapter III of that Schedule, exist.
Regulations 6 to 9 make consequential amendments to regulations 5 and 6 of the 1989 Regulations.
Regulation 10 amends regulation 11 of the 1989 Regulations so that the Scottish Legal Aid Board (“the Board”) may take into account any payment made to a solicitor under the advice and assistance scheme in respect of a case when assessing a civil legal aid account. It also amends that regulation to remove restrictions on the Board’s ability to make payments to account in respect of work done by solicitors.
These Regulations, except regulation 4, only apply to fees for work done in connection with cases where civil legal aid is granted on or after 1st October 2003. Regulation 4 applies to all work done in relation to civil legal aid after 1st October 2003.
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