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48.—(1) A legal aid order may provide for the services of more than one counsel only in the cases specified and in the manner prescribed by the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) The cases specified for the purposes of this regulation are trials in the Crown Court or proceedings in the Court of Appeal or the House of Lords–
(a)on a charge of murder, or
(b)where it appears to the court or the person making the legal aid order that the case is one of exceptional difficulty, gravity or complexity and that the interests of justice require that the legally assisted person should have the services of two counsel.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), a High Court judge or a circuit judge, in the case of proceedings in the Crown Court, or a judge of the Court of Appeal or the Registrar, in the case of proceedings in the Court of Appeal, may make a legal aid order to provide for the services of two counsel in the following terms–
(a)a Queen’s Counsel with a junior counsel;
(b)a Queen’s Counsel with a noting junior counsel;
(c)two junior counsel; or
(d)a junior counsel with a noting junior counsel,
but in considering which order to make may have regard to the choice by the legally assisted person of any one particular counsel.
(4) A magistrates' court shall not make an order in the manner prescribed by paragraph (3)(b), (c) or (d) and may only make an order in the manner prescribed by paragraph (3)(a) on a charge of murder.
(5) Before making an order under paragraph (3), the judge or the Registrar shall consider whether the services of a Queen’s Counsel alone should be provided and, if so, shall so order.
(6) In a case specified in paragraph (2), a legal aid order which provides–
(a)for the services of one counsel, may be amended to provide for the services of two counsel in any manner prescribed by paragraph (3);
(b)for the services of two counsel, may be amended to provide for the services of the same number of counsel but in another manner prescribed by paragraph (3).
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