20.—(1) Where an assisted person was charged with more than one offence on one indictment, the standard fee payable to the representative shall be based on whichever of those offences he shall select for the purposes.N.I.
(2) Where two or more cases to which this Schedule applies involving the same representative were heard concurrently (whether involving the same or different assisted persons) –
(a)the representative shall select one case (“the principal case”), which shall be treated for the purposes of costs in accordance with the previous paragraphs of this Schedule;
(b)in respect of the main hearing in each of the other cases the representative shall be paid a fixed fee of twenty per cent of –
(i)the Basic Trial Fee, Guilty Plea 1 Fee or Guilty Plea 2 Fee, as applicable, for the principal case, where that is a case falling within paragraph 1, or
(ii)the fixed fee for the principal case, where that is a case falling within paragraph 2.
(3) Where a representative attended a hearing specified in paragraph 13, 14, 15 or 16(1)(a) or (b), forming part of two or more cases involving different assisted persons, he shall be paid –
(a)in respect of the first such case, the fee for that hearing specified in the Table following paragraph 19; and
(b)in respect of each of the other cases, twenty per cent of that fee.
(4) Subject to sub-paragraphs (1) to (3), where a representative attended a hearing forming part of two or more cases, he shall be paid the fixed fee for that hearing specified in the Table following paragraph 19 in respect of one such case, without any increase in respect of the other cases.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 20 in operation at 4.4.2005, see rule 1