The Community Legal Service (Financial) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007

Amendments to the Community Legal Service (Financial) Regulations 2000

9.  In regulation 42—

(a) after the definition of “recovered” insert—

““settlement fee” means the separate fee payable in addition to the standard fee which a supplier may claim in accordance with the unified contract where a case settles under Family Help (Lower);

“standard fee” means the basic fee payable for the relevant category of law in accordance with the unified contract;”

(b) after the definition of “success fee” insert—

““supplier” means a party to the unified contract other than the Commission;

“unified contract” means the contract between the Commission and a supplier for the provision of funded services which consists of the contract document, the schedule, the contract standard terms and the specification.”(1).

(1)

Published by the Commission in 2007 and available on its website at www.legalservices.gov.uk/civil/unified_contract.asp.