{"id":70338,"date":"2016-05-10T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8dce7b25ec2e01e4b8cedf98caf479e9"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T10:43:23","slug":"news-story-crime-news-advocates-claim-receipts-to-stop-1-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70338","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: advocates\u2019 claim receipts to stop 1 June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We will no longer be providing confirmation of receipt for AF1 and AF2 forms under the Advocates\u2019 Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS) starting on 1 June 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, advocates now have the option of tracking the status of claims submitted electronically. <\/p>\n<p>This follows the introduction of the online AGFS billing application, \u2018Claims for Crown Court Defence\u2019 (CCD).<br \/>\nIf you wish to sign up to submit your AGFS bills online through the CCD application, use the link below to the Crime Billing Online FAQs for instructions on how to gain access.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"benefits-of-online-billing-with-ccd\">Benefits of online billing with CCD<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>simplifies AGFS billing, including evidence submissions<\/li>\n<li>avoids postal delays<\/li>\n<li>reduced postage and printing costs<\/li>\n<li>online messaging and instant notifications from processing teams<\/li>\n<li>track the progress of your AGFS bill through real time status updates<\/li>\n<li>wet signatures no longer needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/simplifying-criminal-legal-aid-processing\">Criminal legal aid processing: applications and digital systems<\/a> \u2013 to find out more about online AGFS billing and download a \u2018Crime Billing Online FAQ\u2019 document<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:crowncourtdefence@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">crowncourtdefence@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk<\/a> \u2013 for email enquiries about the Crime Billing Online project<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:advocates-fee@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">advocates-fee@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk<\/a> \u2013 for all other email enquiries relating to the AGFS Scheme<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmation of receipt for Advocates\u2019 Graduated Fee Scheme claims ends on 1 June 2016.<\/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\/70338"}],"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=70338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}