The Criminal Legal Aid (Fixed Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 1

	Where professional services are provided in relation to proceedings in the District Court (other than where proceedings are set down to proceed before a Stipendiary Magistrate)	Where professional services are provided in relation to proceedings in the Sheriff Court (other than proceedings in a Court specified in Schedule 2) or the District Court (where proceedings are set down to proceed before a Stipendiary Magistrate)	Where professional services are provided in relation to proceedings in the Sheriff Court and those proceedings are brought in a Court specified in Schedule 2
1.  All work up to and including: (i) any diet at which a plea of guilty is made and accepted or plea in mitigation is made; (ii) the first 30 minutes of conducting a proof in mitigation other than in the circumstances where paragraph (2) below applies; and (iii) the first 30 minutes of conducting any trial together with any subsequent or additional work other than that specified in paragraphs 2-9 below.	£300 (where criminal legal aid has been made available in the circumstances referred to in para graphs 7 or 8 below £275)	£500 (where criminal legal aid has been made available in the circumstances referred to in paragraphs 7 or 8 below £475)	£550 (where criminal legal aid has been made available in the circumstances referred to in paragraphs 7 or 8 below £525)
2.  All work done in connection with a grant of legal aid under section 23(1)(b) of the Act including the first 30 minutes of conducting a proof in mitigation.	£25	£50	£50
3.  Conducting a trial or proof in mitigation for the first day (after the first 30 minutes).	£50	£100	£100
4.  Conducting a trial or proof in mitigation for the second day.	£50	£200	£200
5.  Conducting a trial or proof in mitigation for the third and subsequent days (per day).	£100	£400	£400
6.  Representation in court at a diet of deferred sentence.	£25	£50	£50
7.  All work done where the accused is in custody and has tendered a plea of not guilty until determination of the application for legal aid.	£25	£25	£25
8.  All work done by virtue of section 24(7) of the Act until determination of the application for legal aid.	£25	£25	£25
9.  All work done in connection with a bail appeal under section 32 of the 1995 Act.	£50	£50	£50

Schedule 1

SCHEDULE 2 SPECIFIED SHERIFF COURTS

• Campbeltown

• Dunoon (where proceedings have taken place in Lochgilphead)

• Kirkwall

• Lerwick

• Lochmaddy

• Oban

• Portree

• Rothesay

• Stornoway