The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005
1Citation and commencement
2Interpretation
3Application and transitional arrangements
4General
5Interim payment of disbursements
6Interim disbursements and final determination of costs
7Claims for costs by solicitors
8Determination of solicitors' fees
9Determination of solicitors' disbursements
10Claims for fees by advocates
11Determination of advocates' fees
12Payment of costs
13Redetermination of costs by Commission
14Appeals to the taxing master
15Appeals to the High Court
16Very High Cost Cases – Certification
17Very High Cost Cases – Determination of representatives' fees
18Restriction on payment
19Time limits
20Review
SCHEDULE 1STANDARD FEES
PART 1definition and scope
1(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), this Schedule applies to every...
2Paragraphs 19, 20(2), 21(2) and (3), 29(1) and 30(1) of...
3(1) A case on indictment is a guilty plea if...
4A reference in this Schedule to the Table of Offences...
5(1) For the purposes of this Schedule –
PART 2standard fees for trials
6(1) The amount of the standard fee for a representative...
7For the purposes of paragraph 6 the Basic Trial Fee...
TABLES OF BASIC TRIAL FEES AND REFRESHER FEES
PART 3standard fees for guilty pleas
8(1) The amount of the standard fee for a representative...
9For the purposes of paragraph 8 the fee appropriate to...
TABLES OF GUILTY PLEA FEES
PART 4fixed and time-based fees
10(1) The fixed fee set out in the Table following...
11The fixed fee set out in the Table following paragraph...
12(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the fixed fee...
13(1) This paragraph applies to – (a) the hearing of...
14(1) This paragraph applies to a hearing to which the...
15(1) This paragraph applies to – (a) a sentencing hearing...
16(1) Subject to paragraph 22, the time-based fee set out...
17The fixed fee set out in the Table following paragraph...
18(1) The hourly fee set out in the Table following...
19(1) The costs payable to a representative instructed in any...
TABLES OF FIXED AND TIME-BASED FEES
PART 5miscellaneous
20(1) Where an assisted person was charged with more than...
21(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2), (4) and (5), the fee...
22(1) This paragraph applies to any hearing in respect of...
23(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), this paragraph applies if a...
24Where following a case on indictment a Newton hearing took...
25Where a fee is payable under Part 4 in respect...
26Any case in which – (a) the prosecution offered no...
27Where a solicitor was dismissed by the assisted person, or...
28(1) Where an advocate instructed in a case passed the...
29(1) Where a solicitor attended court, the Commission shall allow...
30(1) Where an advocate was instructed to appear in a...
SCHEDULE 2VERY HIGH COST CASES
SCHEDULE 3TABLE OF OFFENCES
2005 No. 112
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made
To be laid before Parliament
Coming into operation
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 36(3) of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 19811, and now vested in him2, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, the Attorney General and the Crown Court Rules Committee and with the approval of the Treasury, and having had regard to the matters specified in Article 37, hereby makes the following Rules: