Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007

9.  Schedule 2 is amended as follows—

(a) after paragraph 10(2C) insert—

“(2D) Where a case is transferred to a new litigator after committal for trial and before the assisted person appears in the Crown Court for the first time, the original litigator may claim only the fee referred to in paragraph 12B.”;

(b) after paragraph 12A insert—

“Fees for committal proceedings

12B.   The fee payable to a litigator for work done in relation to committal proceedings, including any hearing in the magistrates’ court, is that set out in the table following paragraph 14.”;

(c) in the table following paragraph 14, after the entry “Hearing subsequent to sentence” insert—

“Committal proceedings

12B

£318”.