{"id":77045,"date":"2016-12-08T14:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ef231c03d696b3f07ba0c8877294bcc2"},"modified":"2016-12-08T14:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:17:20","slug":"news-story-crime-news-retrial-claims-under-advocates-graduated-fee-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77045","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: retrial claims under Advocates\u2019 Graduated Fee Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A change is being introduced from 12 December 2016 to the AGFS claiming process for retrials.<\/p>\n<p>This will apply where the original trial advocate is replaced by a different advocate for the retrial.<\/p>\n<p>The change will mean that the retrial payment claim will be submitted to the Legal Aid Agency by the new advocate.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the original trial advocate was required to submit claims for both the trial and retrial \u2013 even when a different advocate was in place for the retrial.<\/p>\n<p>This means that for claims submitted on or after 12 December 2016 where there is a change of advocate the:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>original trial advocate will claim for the trial<\/li>\n<li>new trial advocate will claim for the retrial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"grace-period\">Grace period<\/h2>\n<p>There will be a grace period for incorrect submissions. This means that claims for retrial submitted by either advocate will be accepted between 12 December 2016 and 31 January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Claims on or after 1 February 2017 must be submitted by the trial advocate with conduct of the retrial.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:advocates-fee@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">advocates-fee@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk<\/a> \u2013 for enquiries about this change<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change of process for retrial claims under the Advocates\u2019 Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS).<\/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\/77045"}],"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=77045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}