{"id":56920,"date":"2015-05-14T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=aa7b0abb19386cf30fbf596566636b6f"},"modified":"2015-05-14T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T12:43:00","slug":"news-story-crime-news-crown-court-fees-now-paid-directly-to-trial-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56920","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: Crown Court fees now paid directly to trial advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>\u2018Trial advocates\u2019 attending the main hearing in a criminal case are now able to make the claim for the legal aid fee under changes introduced on 5 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The claim can be made on the new AF1 form, which is available to download on GOV.UK \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>This amendment was made in response to Sir Brian Leveson\u2019s Review of Efficiency in Criminal Proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>This recommended that, for case ownership to work in practice, the fee should go to the advocate or solicitor-advocate who conducts the main hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Guidance on our Crown Court fee page will be updated by June 2015 to give providers more detail about this change.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/af1-claim-for-advocate-graduated-fees\">AF1: claim for advocate graduated fees<\/a> \u2013 to download AF1 form<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2015\/882\/contents\/made\">The Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015<\/a> \u2013 see 282<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/crown-court-fee-guidance\">Crown Court fee guidance<\/a> \u2013 to be updated by June 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payments are now being made to advocates attending the main hearing in Crown Court cases.<\/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\/56920"}],"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=56920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56925,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56920\/revisions\/56925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}