The Legal Aid and Advice and Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2023

Regulation 7(3)(b)

SCHEDULE 10 Amendments to Part 2 of schedule 3 of the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996

					Criminal	Civil	Children
A.	Time occupied in carrying out work for the client other than work described in paragraphs B to E below—
	(i)	Solicitor – per quarter hour (or part thereof)			£14.53	£15.97	£15.97
	(ii)	Solicitor’s clerk – per quarter hour (or part thereof)			£7.25	£7.97	£7.97
B.	For short letters of a formal nature, short telephone calls (of up to 4 minutes duration), framing formal documents such as inventories and engrossing formal documents for signature – per sheet (or part thereof)				£3.32	£3.64	£3.64
C.	For letters other than B above – per page (or part thereof), framing non-formal documents other than precognitions – per sheet of 250 words (or part thereof) and lengthy telephone calls (of over 4 and up to 10 minutes duration)				£8.27	£9.10	£9.10
D.	For taking and drawing precognitions – for the first sheet of 250 words or less				£29.00	£31.93	£31.93
	for each subsequent sheet of 250 words				£29.00	£31.93	£31.93
	for each subsequent sheet of less than 250 words				£14.53	£15.97	£15.97
DA.	The fee for each quarter of an hour (or part thereof) spent travelling—
	(a)		by a solicitor		£7.28	£8.01	£8.01
	(b)		by a solicitor’s clerk		£3.63	£4.01	£4.01
E.	(a)		There is no fee for photocopying—
			(i)	where fewer than 20 sheets are copied at one time,
			(ii)	in relation to the first 20 sheets copied at any one time.
	(b)		Subject to sub-paragraph (a), the fee for all photocopying in the matter is—
			(i)	for each sheet copied, up to 10,000 sheets, and	£0.05
			(ii)	for each sheet copied in addition to the first 10,000 sheets	£0.01