The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013

Regulations 6, 8(3) and 9(2)

SCHEDULE 1 E+W

Interpretation E+W

1.—(1) Unless different provision is made, words and expressions used in this Schedule have the same meaning as in the relevant contract.

(2) In this Schedule, “Mental Health Proceedings” means proceedings or potential proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal or the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales under any provision of the Mental Health Act 1983 M1 or paragraph 5(2) of the Schedule to the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 M2 .

(3) In Part 3 of this Schedule (Hourly Rates – Licensed Work) “Higher Courts” means as appropriate the Court of Protection, the Crown Court, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

Marginal Citations

M1 1983 c. 20.

M2 1984 c. 47.

PART 1 E+W Civil Standard and Graduated Fees

Legal help and help at court E+W

2.  The fees in Table 1 for Housing do not apply to the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme. The fees for that Scheme are contained in Table 6 in this Part.

3.  In Table 1, “ consumer general contract”, “employment” and “personal injury” have the same meanings as in the category definitions of the 2010 Standard Civil Contract in force on 31^st March 2013 M3 . E+W

Table 1

Category Definition	Schedule Authorisation Standard Fee	Schedule Authorisation Escape Fee Threshold
Actions Against the Police	£239	£717
Clinical Negligence	£195	£585
Community Care	£266	£798
Debt	£180	£540
Education	£272	£816
Housing	£157	£471
Miscellaneous	£159 (consumer general contract) £207 (employment) £203 (personal injury) £79 (all other matters)	£477 (consumer general contract) £621 (employment) £609 (personal injury) £237 (all other matters)
Public Law	£259	£777
Welfare Benefits	£150	£450

Table 2(a): Legal help

Family Public Law

Region	Fee
National	£132

Table 2(b): Family help (lower) - section 31 Children Act 1989 Care or Supervision proceedings only

Region	Fee
National	£365

Table 2(c): Legal representation – section 31 Children Act 1989 Care or Supervision proceedings only

Party	Court	Number of clients	Midlands	North	London and South	Wales
Child	Other	1	£1,949	£1,598	£2,237	£2,183
Child	Other	2 or more	£2,922	£2,396	£3,355	£3,275
Child	High Court	1	£2,591	£2,125	£2,975	£2,903
Child	High Court	2 or more	£3,887	£3,188	£4,461	£4,354
Joined Party	Other		£1,033	£798	£1,201	£1,301
Joined Party	High Court		£1,374	£1,602	£1,597	£1,730
Parent	Other	1	£2,556	£2,123	£2,907	£2,633
Parent	Other	2	£3,196	£2,653	£3,633	£3,291
Parent	High Court	1	£3,399	£2,823	£3,866	£3,502
Parent	High Court	2	£4,249	£3,530	£4,832	£4,378

Table 3(a): Legal help

Family Private Law

Region	Fee
National	£86

Table 3(b): Legal help – Divorce petition only

Region	Fee
National	£146

Table 3(c): Family help (lower) - Children

Region	Fee	Settlement Fee
London	£230	£138
Non-London	£199	£119

Table 3(d): Family help (lower) - Finance

Region	Fee	Settlement Fee
London	£241	£145
Non-London	£208	£125

Table 3(e): Help with family mediation

Activity	Fee
Mediation Advice	£150
Mediation Consent Order (Finance)	£200

Table 3(f): Higher Standard Fee Scheme - Children

Region	Court	Family help (higher) Standard Fee	Legal representation Standard Fee
London	Court other than the High Court or Court of Protection	£424	£302
London	High Court or Court of Protection	£509	£362
Non-London	Court other than the High Court or Court of Protection	£353	£251
Non-London	High Court or Court of Protection	£424	£302

Table 3(g): Higher Standard Fee Scheme - Finance

Region	Court	Family help (higher)Standard Fee	Family help (higher)Standard Fee	Legal representationStandard Fee
London	Court other than the High Court or Court of Protection	£471	£95	£374
London	High Court or Court of Protection	£565	£113	£449
Non-London	Court other than the High Court or Court of Protection	£392	£78	£311
Non-London	High Court or Court of Protection	£471	£95	£374

Table 3(h): Higher Standard Fee Scheme – Domestic Abuse Proceedings

Region	Court	Legal representationStandard Fee
London	Court other than the High Court or Court of Protection	£608
London	High Court or Court of Protection	£729
Non-London	Court other than the High Court or Court of Protection	£507
Non-London	High Court or Court of Protection	£608

Table 4(a): Immigration and Asylum Standard Fees

Immigration and Asylum

Type of matter	Stage 1 (legal help)	Stage 2a (controlled legal representation)	Stage 2b (controlled legal representation)
Asylum	£413	£227	£567
Immigration – non-asylum	£234	£227	£454

Table 4(b): Additional Payment – UKBA Interview

Representation at UKBA Interview

£266

Table 4(c): Additional Payments for Advocacy Services

Oral Case Management Review Hearing	£166
Telephone Case Management Review Hearing	£90
Substantive Hearing in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal	Asylum - £302 Immigration - £ 237
Additional Day Substantive Hearing	Asylum - £161 Immigration - £161

Table 4(d): Immigration Removal Centres Standard Fees (for Exclusive Schedule Holders only)

On Site Surgery – advising 5 or more clients	£360
On Site Surgery – advising 4 clients or less	£180
Fast Track Standby Payment	£34.02

Table 5(a): Basic Fees

Mental Health

Basic Fees	Value
Mental Health – non Tribunal	£253
Level 1 (Mental Health Proceedings)	£129
Level 2 (Mental Health Proceedings)	£321
Level 3 (Mental Health Proceedings)	£294

Table 5(b): Additional Fees

Additional Fees	Value
Adjourned Hearing Fee	£117
Remote Travel Payment: Level 1 (Mental Health Proceedings)	£69
Remote Travel Payment: Non-Tribunal, Level 2 (Mental Health Proceedings), Level 3 (Mental Health Proceedings)	£138

Table 6: Standard Fee

Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme

Region	Standard Fee
London	£75.60
Non-London	£71.55

Marginal Citations

M3 The contract is available at www.justice.gov.uk/legal-aid. Copies can be inspected at the Legal Aid Agency (Head Office) at 102 Petty France, London SW1H 9AJ.

PART 2 E+W Hourly Rates – Controlled Work

Table 7(a): Immigration and Asylum Escape Fee cases, Mental Health, Actions Against the Police, Public Law, Education and Community Care

Legal help, help at court and family help (lower)

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation, Attendance and Advocacy	£52.65 per hour	£48.24 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£27.81 per hour	£27.00 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£4.05 per item	£3.78 per item

Table 7(b): Family and Housing (except as in Table 7(c)) and Miscellaneous (employment)

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation, Attendance and Advocacy	£48.74 per hour	£45.95 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£25.74 per hour	£25.74 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£3.78 per item	£3.65 per item

Table 7(c): Legal help or help at court provided in relation to a review under section 202 of the Housing Act 1996 and to a defendant to a possession claim in the County Court, family help (lower) and related legal help in relation to section 31 of the Children Act 1989

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation, Attendance and Advocacy	£56.16 per hour	£52.56 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£27.81 per hour	£27.05 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£4.05 per item	£3.78 per item

Table 7(d): Immigration and Asylum hourly rates cases

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation, Attendance and Advocacy	£51.62 per hour	£47.30 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£27.27 per hour	£26.51 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£3.96 per item	£3.69 per item

Table 7(e): All other categories

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation, Attendance and Advocacy	£46.53 per hour	£43.88 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£24.62 per hour	£24.62 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£3.60 per item	£3.47 per item

Table 8(a): Immigration and Asylum – Escape Fee Cases

Controlled Legal Representation

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation and Attendance	£57.83 per hour	£54.09 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£28.62 per hour	£27.81 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£4.14 per item	£3.87 per item
Advocacy	£65.79 per hour	£65.79 per hour

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Table 8(b) omitted (2.12.2013) by virtue of The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2877), regs. 1, 2(4)(a) (with reg. 3)

[F2 Table 8(c): Controlled Legal Representation – Immigration and Asylum hourly rates cases]

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation and Attendance	£55.08 per hour	£51.53 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£27.27 per hour	£26.51 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£3.96 per hour	£3.69 per hour
Advocacy	£62.64 per hour	£62.64 per hour

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Table 8(c) heading substituted (2.12.2013) by The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2877), regs. 1, 2(4)(b) (with reg. 3)

Table 8(d): Representation in Mental Health Proceedings

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation, Attendance and Advocacy	£57.83 per hour	£54.09 per hour
Travel and Waiting Time	£28.62 per hour	£27.81 per hour
Routine Letters Out and Telephone Calls	£4.14 per item	£3.87 per item
Advocacy	£65.79 per item	£65.79 per item
Attending Tribunal with Counsel	£30.78 per hour	£30.78 per hour

PART 3 E+W Hourly Rates – Licensed Work

Table 9(a): Proceedings under Parts IV or V of the Children Act 1989, including proceedings under section 25 of that Act

Family Prescribed Rates

Activity	Higher Courts	County Court and Family Proceedings Court
Writing routine letters	£4.23 per item	£3.69 per item
Receiving routine letters	£2.12 per item	£1.85 per item
Routine telephone calls	£4.23 per item	£3.69 per item
Preparation and attendance	£70.07 per hour (London rate) £65.84 per hour (Non-London rate)	£61.38 per hour (London rate) £58.41 per hour (Non-London rate)
Attendance at court or conference with counsel	£37.13 per hour	£32.67 per hour
Advocacy	£70.07 per hour (London rate) £65.84 per hour (Non-London rate)	£64.35 per hour
Travelling and waiting time	£32.18 per hour	£29.21 per hour

Table 9(b): Other Family Proceedings

Activity	Higher Courts	County Court and Family Proceedings Court
Routine letters out	£6.35 per item	£5.40 per item
Receiving routine letters	£3.15 per item	£2.70 per item
Routine telephone calls	£6.35 per item	£5.40 per item
Preparation and attendance	£70.56 per hour (London rate) £65.75 per hour (Non-London rate)	£59.40 per hour (London rate) £54.90 per hour (Non-London rate)
Attending court or conference with Counsel	£37.13 per hour	£32.40 per hour
Advocacy	£70.56 per hour (London rate) £65.75 per hour (Non-London rate)	£59.40 per hour (London rate) £56.70 per hour (Non-London rate)
Travelling and waiting time	£32.18 per hour	£28.80 per hour (London rate) £27.90 per hour (Non-London rate)

Table 10(a): Higher Courts, County Courts and Magistrates' Courts for work carried out with Schedule Authorisation

Non Family Prescribed Rates

Activity	Higher Courts	County Court and Magistrates' Courts
Routine letters out	£6.75 per item	£5.94 per item
Routine telephone calls	£3.74 per item	£3.29 per item
Preparation and attendance	£71.55 per hour (London rate) £67.50 per hour (Non-London rate)	£63.00 per hour (London rate) £59.40 per hour (Non-London rate)
Attendance at court or conference with Counsel	£33.30	£29.25
Advocacy	£67.50 per hour	£59.40 per hour
Travelling and waiting time	£29.93 per hour	£26.28 per hour

Table 10(b): Higher Courts, County Courts and Magistrates' Courts for work not carried out with Schedule Authorisation

Activity	Higher Courts	County Court and Magistrates' Courts
Routine letters out	£6.66 per item	£5.85 per item
Routine telephone calls	£3.69 per item	£3.24 per item
Preparation and attendance	£70.65 per hour (London rate) £66.60 per hour (Non-London rate)	£62.10 per hour (London rate) £58.50 per hour (Non-London rate)
Attendance at court or conference with Counsel	£32.76 per hour	£28.80 per hour
Advocacy	£66.60 per hour	£58.50 per hour
Travelling and waiting time	£29.43 per hour	£25.88 per hour

Table 10(c): First-tier Tribunal

Activity	London Rate	Non-London Rate
Preparation and attendance	£55.08 per hour	£51.53 per hour
Routine letters out and telephone calls	£3.96 per item	£3.69 per item
Attending tribunal or conference with counsel	£29.30 per hour	£29.30 per hour
Advocacy	£62.64 per hour	£62.64 per hour
Travelling and waiting time	£27.27 per hour	£26.51 per hour

PART 4 E+W Family Mediation Fees

Table 11(a): Assessment Meetings

Activity	Fee
Assessment alone	£87
Assessment separate	£87
Assessment together	£130

Table 11(b): Mediation Fees

Category of Work	Single Session	Multi Session	Agreed Proposal
All Issues of Sole Mediation	£168	£756	£252
All Issues Co-Mediation	£230	£1,064	£252
Property and Finance Sole Mediation	£168	£588	£189
Property and Finance Co-Mediation	£230	£834	£189
Child Sole Mediation	£168	£462	£126
Child Co-Mediation	£230	£647	£126