{"id":74275,"date":"2016-09-19T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2c1a24b5e593fd6c9d19d77b09dcdb26"},"modified":"2016-09-19T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:51:15","slug":"news-story-civil-news-guidance-for-legal-help-escape-cases-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74275","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: guidance for legal help escape cases updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Useful links have now been built into our escape case and civil finance handbooks which cover areas as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standard Civil Contract<\/li>\n<li>rates calculator<\/li>\n<li>remuneration regulations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have also added in standard templates for disbursements that can be used as an indicator for the information we require.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"guidance-changes\">Guidance changes<\/h3>\n<p>The main guidance changes for both handbooks relate to process servers, sample collection fees and rejects.<\/p>\n<p>Guidance on emergency scope, settlement conferences and interest on cost has been added to the civil finance handbook.<\/p>\n<p>Within the escape case handbook the main changes relate to CW3 applications and the rates applicable in family and housing cases.<\/p>\n<p>Full details of the changes are listed at the start of each handbook.<\/p>\n<p>The handbook should be used with the contract specification and other guidance, such as the Costs Assessment Guidance.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/submit-an-escape-fee-case-claim\">Escape Cases Handbook<\/a> \u2013 to download guidance handbook<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/submit-an-escape-fee-case-claim\">CW3: extension of upper cost limit in controlled work cases<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/funding-and-costs-assessment-for-civil-and-crime-matters\">Funding and costs assessment<\/a> \u2013 to download Civil Finance Handbook<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the escape case and civil finance handbook have been revised to reflect current practice.<\/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\/74275"}],"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=74275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}