The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1987

PART I TABLE OF FEES ALLOWABLE TO SOLICITORS FOR ASSISTANCE BY WAY OF REPRESENTATION

(a) for attendance at, and all work preliminary to,–

(i) any diet at which a plea to the competency or relevancy of the complaint or proceedings, or a plea in bar of trial, is tendered;

(ii) any diet at which a question within the meaning of the Act of Adjournal (References to the European Court) 1973(1) is raised;

(iii) any diet at which there is tendered a plea of guilty,

a fee of £50.00;

(b) where, following a plea of guilty, one or more adjournments are ordered by the court, for all work subsequent to the diet at which the plea of guilty was tendered, such fee, not exceeding £75.75, as shall be reasonable remuneration having regard to the additional work and time involved;

(c) for all other work, fees calculated on the basis of the fees set out in Schedule 1 or, as the case may be, Schedule 2 to the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1987(2).

(1)

S.I. 1973/450.

(2)

S.I. 1987/365.