The Community Legal Service (Funding) Order 2007

Civil Standard and Graduated Fees

Part 1 Legal Help and Help at Court

Table 1

The fees in this Table for Housing do not apply for the Housing Possession Duty Scheme – see Part 6.

Category	Under Specialist Quality Mark Fixed fee	Under Specialist Quality Mark Exceptional Thresholds	Tolerance Fixed Fee	Tolerance Exceptional Thresholds
Actions Against the Police	£261	£783	£151	£453
Clinical Negligence	£213	£639	£-	£-
Community Care	£290	£870	£175	£525
Consumer General Contract	£174	£522	£146	£438
Debt	£196	£588	£121	£363
Education	£296	£888	£149	£447
Employment	£225	£675	£147	£441
Housing	£171	£513	£135	£405
Miscellaneous	£86	£258	£-	£-
Personal Injury	£204	£612	£-	£-
Public Law	£282	£846	£203	£609
Welfare Benefits	£164	£492	£133	£399

Part 2 Family Public Law

Table 2 (a) Legal Help

National
£144

Table 2(b) Family Help (Lower) – section 31 Children Act 1989(1) Care Proceedings Only

National
£347

Table 2(c) Legal Representation section 31 Children Act 1989 Care Proceedings only

Party	Court	Number of Clients	Midlands	North	London and South	Wales
Child	Other	1	£2,405	£1,972	£2,761	£2,695
Child	Other	2+	£3,608	£2,958	£4,142	£4,043
Child	High	1	£3,199	£2,623	£3,672	£3,584
Child	High	2+	£4,799	£3,935	£5,508	£5,376
Joined Party	Other	-	£1,276	£986	£1,482	£1,606
Joined Party	High	-	£1,697	£1,311	£1,971	£2,136
Parent	Other	1	£3,156	£2,621	£3,589	£3,250
Parent	Other	2	£3,945	£3,276	£4,486	£4,063
Parent	High	1	£4,197	£3,486	£4,773	£4,323
Parent	High	2	£5,246	£4,358	£5,966	£5,404

Part 3 Family Private Law

Table 3 (a) Legal Help

National
£94

Table 3 (b) Legal Help Divorce Petition Only

National
£159

Table 3 (c) Family Help (Lower) Children

	Fee	Settlement Fee
London	£256	£153
Non – London	£221	£132

Table 3 (d) Family Help (Lower) Finance

	Fee	Settlement Fee
London	£268	£161
Non – London	£231	£139

Part 4 Immigration and Asylum

Table 4 (a) Immigration and asylum scheme graduated fees

	Stage 1 (Legal Help)	Stage 2a (CLR)	Stage 2b (CLR)
Asylum Graduated Fee	£450	£240	£600
Immigration Graduated Fee	£255	£240	£480

Table 4 (b) Additional payment for immigration and asylum cases

Activity	Additional Payment
Representation at the Home Office interview (asylum and immigration cases within scope)	£290
Representation at oral Case Management Review Hearing	£175
Representation at telephone Case Management Review Hearing	£95
Representation at substantive Asylum and Immigration Tribunal hearing	£320 Asylum £250 Immigration
Additional hearing: part heard or re- list	£170 Asylum £170 Immigration
All disbursements (interpreter and translators, expert reports, travel expenses)	Separate payment outside of Graduated Fee Scheme, subject to cost thresholds

Part 5 Mental Health

Table 5 (a) Basic Fees

	Basic Fees
Non Mental Health Review Tribunal	£275
Level 1 (MHRT)	£140
Level 2 (MHRT)	£340
Level 3 (MHRT)	£311

Table 5 (b) Additional Fee

Activity	Additional Fees
Adjourned Hearing Fee	£124
Remote Travel payment Level 1 (Mental Health Review Tribunal)	£75
Remote Travel payment Non MHRT, Level 2 (MHRT) Level 3 (MHRT)	£150

Part 6 Housing Possession Duty Scheme

Table 6: Standard Fee

	Fee
London	£84
Non London	£79.50

(1)

1989 c.41.