{"id":46863,"date":"2014-08-28T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=195d2a9b9c352de02dcd934eb78bcb49"},"modified":"2014-08-28T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:51:00","slug":"news-story-crime-news-forensic-science-lab-charges-for-crime-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46863","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: forensic science lab charges for crime work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We published guidance in August 2014 on the funding of forensic science laboratory charges for crime work.<\/p>\n<p>This sets out that appropriate charges levied upon the defence by prosecution forensic science laboratories may be payable by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA). <\/p>\n<p>The LAA will consider paying these charges where we:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>consider the charge to be reasonable<\/li>\n<li>have granted prior authority to incur the cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The guidance provides a list of activities that must not be claimed from the LAA.<\/p>\n<p>It also explains that payment for such services will be made in line with the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/expert-witnesses-in-legal-aid-cases\">Expert witnesses in legal aid cases<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidance on funding of forensic science laboratory charges for crime work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46881,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46863\/revisions\/46881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}