{"id":73298,"date":"2016-08-17T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=df5420cc7367e8c4f04f1723fe586ef9"},"modified":"2016-08-17T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T11:45:05","slug":"news-story-civil-news-avoiding-rejected-advocacy-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73298","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: avoiding rejected advocacy claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Advocates instructed through CCMS should make sure that the solicitor has allocated costs to them at the start of the process.<\/p>\n<p>This will help ensure their certificated billing isn\u2019t rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates can only claim costs up to the designated level once they have been allocated.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"payment-delays\">Payment delays<\/h3>\n<p>If costs are not allocated this may cause payment delays for both providers and advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates should check, on instruction whether the case is being processed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>through CCMS or<\/li>\n<li>using the old paper process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For certificated bills submitted on both CCMS and paper, solicitors must ensure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>all advocacy fees have been paid before submitting their claim under the Family Advocacy Scheme or Family Graduated Fee scheme<\/li>\n<li>amount paid matches the allocated cost limit on CCMS or the amount specified on the paper claim form<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"checking-payments-against-claims\">Checking payments against claims<\/h3>\n<p>By doing this, you allow us to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make sure that advocacy fees are all paid before we settle the solicitor\u2019s final bill and close down the certificate<\/li>\n<li>determine any refund or statutory charge liability once solicitor\u2019s final bill is paid<\/li>\n<li>check that any assessment on the claim takes into account work carried out by advocates<\/li>\n<li>make sure all work is within the cost limit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Completing the counsel matrix \u2013 see link below \u2013 makes it easier for us to check for discrepancies.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/counsel-matrix-details-of-counsel-claims-paid-to-date\">Counsel matrix: details of counsel claims paid to date<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solicitors must allocate costs for counsel advocacy instructed through the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS).<\/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\/73298"}],"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=73298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}