{"id":65814,"date":"2015-12-22T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=54a5490fd0e812c7f92c049a82a48abb"},"modified":"2015-12-22T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:16:22","slug":"news-story-civil-news-rates-for-immigration-mental-health-and-escape-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=65814","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: rates for immigration, mental health and escape cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We have introduced a new \u2018escape case rates calculator\u2019 for civil certificated work in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>immigration work <\/li>\n<li>mental health work<\/li>\n<li>escape cases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This follows the success of the \u2018civil claims rates calculator\u2019 which was introduced for other areas of certificated work. This has now been updated \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>The calculators are designed to help both caseworkers and providers check that the rate being claimed is correct.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-the-calculators-work\">How the calculators work<\/h3>\n<p>Details relating to specific categories of law and levels of work are entered into the calculators to help calculate the correct fee.<\/p>\n<p>There are also fields for expert rates which may assist with the submission of CW3 applications.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"change-to-civil-claims-rates-calculator\">Change to civil claims rates calculator<\/h3>\n<p>This is being altered to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>add in a calculator for VHCC care cases<\/li>\n<li>remove an error on court type on judicial review cases<\/li>\n<li>update rates for counsel and attendance behind counsel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Calculators help avoid rejects<br \/>\nOne of the main reasons for rejection on both certificated work and legal help escape cases is incorrect rates.<br \/>\nIn November incorrect rates accounted for 29% of legal help escape case rejects and 5% of certificated billing rejects<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civil-claims-rates-calculator\">Civil claims rates calculator<\/a> \u2013 to download updated civil claims rates calculator and new escape case rates calculator<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/submit-an-escape-fee-case-claim\">Escape cases electronic handbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/escape-fee-case-claim-forms\">EC-CLAIM1: escape fee case claim form<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cw3-extension-of-upper-cost-limit-in-controlled-work-cases\">CW3: extension of upper cost limit in controlled work cases<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New calculator to help you check the rate being claimed is correct.<\/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\/65814"}],"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=65814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}