PART 2 Amendment of the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013

Amendment of Schedule 1 (advocates’ graduated fee scheme)

12.—(1) Paragraph 7 (calculation of graduated fees in guilty pleas and cracked trials) is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(a)—

(a) after “the first third” insert “or the second third”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (i), omit the “and” at the end;

(c) omit sub-paragraph (ii).

(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(b)—

(a) omit “second or”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (i), omit the “and” at the end;

(c) omit sub-paragraph (ii).

(4) In sub-paragraph (2), for “and evidence uplift for the offence are those” substitute “is that”.