The Legal Aid in Civil Proceedings (Remuneration) Regulations 1994

Remuneration

4.—(1) The amounts to be allowed to solicitors on a determination of the costs of an assisted person under regulation 107A of the General Regulations(1) shall be:—

(a)in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b)in accordance with paragraph (2) of RSC Order 62, rule 17 where the costs incurred relate to the kind of work to which that paragraph applies;

(c)in accordance with paragraph 1(1) of Appendix 2, Part I to RSC Order 62, or CCR Order 38 rule 3(3A) or (3B), whichever is applicable, where no provision is made in the Schedule to these Regulations for the kind of work to which the costs relate.

(2) The relevant authority, in determining costs referred to at 3. in the Schedule to these Regulations, shall allow costs at the higher rate specified where the office of the solicitor for the assisted person where the work was done is situated within legal aid area 1.

(3) The relevant authority shall determine disbursements (including counsel’s fees) in accordance with RSC Order 62 or CCR Order 38, whichever is applicable.

(4) Subject to these Regulations, the sums to be allowed to legal representatives in connection with the representation of an assisted person in proceedings to which these Regulations apply, shall be determined in accordance with Part XII of the General Regulations, RSC Order 62 and CCR Order 38.

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Regulation 107A of the General Regulations is introduced by a concurrent amendment in S.I. 1994/229.