The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1996

PART II S TABLE OF FEES ALLOWED TO SOLICITORS FOR ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE OTHER THAN ASSISTANCE BY WAY OF REPRESENTATION

1.  Subject to paragraph 2 of this Part, the fees allowable to a solicitor shall be calculated as follows:– S

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)	£10.55
(ii)solicitor’s clerk – per quarter hour (or part thereof)	£ 5.25
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)	£ 2.40
C.For letters other than in 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)	£ 6.00
D.For taking and drawing precognitions – for the first sheet of 250 words or less for each subsequent sheet of 250 words	£21.05
for each subsequent sheet of 250 words	£21.05
for each subsequent sheet of less than 250 words	£10.55
EWhere an exceptional amount of copying proves necessary, a fee of 35 pence shall be paid for each sheet.

2.  Where the fees which would be allowable to a solicitor in respect of the matter in respect of which advice and assistance was given, calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 above, would amount to less than £25.00 or where a solicitor elects to claim only the fee provided for in this paragraph, a fee of £25.00 shall be allowable in place of the fees so calculated. S

Interpretation S

3.  In this Table–

• a “sheet" shall consist of 250 words or numbers;

• a “page" shall consist of 125 words or numbers; and

• “exceptional" means the production of more than 20 output copy sheets (whether 20 of 1 sheet, 5 of 4 sheets or whatever) when a document has been copied.