{"id":80210,"date":"2017-03-30T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f58410dda8e7a0ade40915924882de42"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:43:27","slug":"news-story-crime-news-updates-to-crown-court-fee-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80210","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: updates to Crown Court fee guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We\u2019re making updates to Crown Court fee guidance which include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Change to claiming process so new advocates in retrial cases can submit payment claims directly to the Legal Aid Agency.<\/li>\n<li>New content to reflect costs judge decision in R v Gravette (2016). When the trial concludes, if the judge allows a QC for the hearing for mitigation of sentence, a fixed fee will be payable.<\/li>\n<li>Clarification of funding for post-conviction Proceeds of Crime work can be found in a new \u2018Appendix R\u2019 in the guidance.<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of 20p bicycle mileage rate where mileage is payable.<\/li>\n<li>Pages of Prosecution Evidence (PPE) guidance updated to reflect that where there is a first stage streamlined forensic report this will now be treated as PPE.<\/li>\n<li>Clarification that the whole of the LAA Report from the Digital Case System must be provided when the advocate is using it in a claim as evidence of PPE.<\/li>\n<li>Ground Rules Hearings will be used as an admissibility of evidence fixed fee to reflect R v Gravette (2016).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/crown-court-fee-guidance\">Crown Court fee guidance<\/a> \u2013 to download updated \u2018Crown Court fee guidance\u2019 document<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Court fee guidance is being updated in a number of areas.<\/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\/80210"}],"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=80210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}