{"id":77017,"date":"2016-12-08T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d1e1f791267389c612da95bf6b65e456"},"modified":"2016-12-08T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:00:08","slug":"news-story-civil-news-high-cost-case-payments-on-account-for-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77017","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: high cost case payments on account for advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Advocates are now able to make \u2018payment on account\u2019 submissions for high cost case work within the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS).<\/p>\n<p>The change was made on 8 December 2016 and follows feedback from advocates.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-do-i-need-to-do\">What do I need to do?<\/h3>\n<p>You have 2 options.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>submit your request in CCMS if you are satisfied receiving 75% of the payment on account<\/li>\n<li>email your request if you would like to receive 100% of the payment on account: <a href=\"mailto:counsel_events_POA@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">counsel_events_POA@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A quick guide is available on the CCMS website with more details of how to make either of these requests.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"benefits-of-ccms-submissions\">Benefits of CCMS submissions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>payments on account will be automatically recouped on payment of the final bill<\/li>\n<li>no adjustments will be needed if payments on account exceed the final bill amount<\/li>\n<li>payment can be made more quickly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"email-submissions\">Email submissions<\/h3>\n<p>If you choose to request a payment on account of 100% this will take longer to process than a request for 75%.<\/p>\n<p>Interim bills submitted from 2 January 2017 will be rejected.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccmstraining.justice.gov.uk\/Quick-guides\/quick-guides\/closing-cases-and-submitting-bills-1\">CCMS: closing cases and submitting bills<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:counsel_events_POA@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">counsel_events_POA@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk<\/a> \u2013 to email 100% \u2018payment on account\u2019 requests<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can select payments on account rather than interim bills when making high cost case submissions in CCMS from 8 December 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\/77017"}],"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=77017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}