{"id":77731,"date":"2017-01-05T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7f27923aab0284546e97862b6b7e9221"},"modified":"2017-01-05T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:10:10","slug":"news-story-crime-news-proposals-to-reform-defence-advocates-pay-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77731","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: proposals to reform defence advocates pay published"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Payments for Crown Court legal aid work by criminal defence advocates are the subject of a government consultation called \u2018Reforming the Advocates\u2019 Graduated Fee Scheme\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The consultation opens for 8 weeks on 5 January 2017 and proposes a new structure for the Advocates Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"proposed-reform\">Proposed reform<\/h3>\n<p>AGFS was last subject to reform in 2007 and is in need of modernisation.<\/p>\n<p>The measures in the government\u2019s consultation are designed to reduce reliance on factors such as the number of pages in a case and instead focus on the seriousness and complexity of the work done.<\/p>\n<p>A key aim is to increase certainty and transparency for advocates and put more emphasis on payment for in-court advocacy.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/consult.justice.gov.uk\/digital-communications\/reforming-the-advocates-graduated-fee-scheme\">Consultation: reforming AGFS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/proposals-to-reform-criminal-defence-advocates-pay-published\">MOJ press release<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultation on reforming payments for Crown Court work through the Advocates\u2019 Graduated Fee Scheme opens 5 January 2017.<\/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\/77731"}],"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=77731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}