Amendment of Schedule 1 (advocates’ graduated fee scheme)
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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”.