{"id":79556,"date":"2017-03-09T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d960e03a6558a15aa61ca21b925119ba"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:00:34","slug":"news-story-crime-update-agfs-and-lgfs-online-billing-grows-in-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79556","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime update: AGFS and LGFS online billing grows in popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>More and more users are taking advantage of the claim for Crown Court Defence service (CCD) for work under both the Advocates\u2019 and Litigators\u2019 Graduated Fee Schemes.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"very-impressed-with-service\">\u2018Very impressed with service\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Feedback is still being gathered from users to improve the service following the completion of rollout in August 2016. But responses so far have been very encouraging. For example:<\/p>\n<p>MJP Solicitors said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am very impressed with the service and look forward to this being the method for making all claims.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Carter Osborne Limited said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Very helpful messages received back on our claims.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>9 St John Street Chambers said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Having just submitted my first bill it does look very easy to bill a claim.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"facts-and-figures\">Facts and figures<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>more than 60,000 bills have been successfully submitted and processed online with more users signing up every day<\/li>\n<li>usage continues to increase with 44% of bills submitted via CCD in January 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"benefits-of-online-billing\">Benefits of online billing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>AGFS and LGFS bills and evidence submissions can be submitted online directly to the LAA<\/li>\n<li>immediate bill submission avoids postal delays<\/li>\n<li>reduced postage and printing costs<\/li>\n<li>online messaging and instant notifications from the processing teams<\/li>\n<li>no need for a \u2018wet\u2019 signature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"future-benefits\">Future benefits<\/h3>\n<p>Software companies are working on developing a link between case management systems and CCD.<\/p>\n<p>Advantages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fast transfer of information between LAA case management systems and CCD<\/li>\n<li>you can avoid the need to re-key duplicate information<\/li>\n<li>calculation of fees will already have taken place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All users are encouraged to contact their software vendors to take advantage of this development.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:crowncourtdefence@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk\">crowncourtdefence@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk<\/a> \u2013 to sign up for CCD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/simplifying-criminal-legal-aid-processing\">Criminal legal aid processing: applications and digital systems<\/a> \u2013 to find out more about online billing and download a \u2018Crown Court Defence FAQ\u2019 document<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of users submitting bills online continues to rise following rollout of Crown Court Defence service across England and Wales.<\/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\/79556"}],"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=79556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}