{"id":84600,"date":"2017-09-20T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3d81c76b7fb902556d55db921c07e470"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:36:25","slug":"news-story-civil-news-update-to-court-assessed-online-claim-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84600","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: update to court-assessed online claim changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Changes to CCMS processes mean a breakdown of individual hearings under the Family Advocacy Scheme (FAS) are required for court assessed submissions from 30 October.<\/p>\n<p>These changes were originally meant to apply from 14 August 2017. But after feedback from legal aid providers, we agreed to allow additional time before introducing these changes.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on 30 October any FAS advocacy, including \u2018bolt-ons\u2019, should be broken down individually and no longer submitted at summary level only.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-will-the-process-work\">How will the process work?<\/h3>\n<p>Guidance on how to enter a breakdown of individual hearings is provided on the CCMS training website \u2013 see link below.<\/p>\n<p>Claims submitted from 30 October 2017 onwards that do not have this breakdown will be rejected so that they can be amended and resubmitted.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"benefits\">Benefits<\/h3>\n<p>Breaking down the fees in your online claim will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>allow CCMS to cross-check rates and dates claimed<\/li>\n<li>reduce the need for us to ask you for further information<\/li>\n<li>simplify the process by making paper-based and online-based claims the same<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This only applies to claims assessed by the court and including any advocacy under the FAS. There are no changes to submissions under other online billing schemes.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ccmstraining.justice.gov.uk\/Quick-guides\/Quickguides\/closing-cases-and-submitting-bills-1\">CCMS Quick Guide<\/a> \u2013 detailed guidance on entering court-assessed bills on CCMS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civ-claim1a-fixed-fee-public-and-private-law-schemes\">CIV Claim 1A<\/a> \u2013 to download checklist with evidential requirements for court assessed claims<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court-assessed claims submitted in the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS) must include a breakdown of advocacy fees from 30 October 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\/84600"}],"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=84600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}