{"id":88261,"date":"2018-01-23T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6a2bd75445d263d1cdcf56b43ccbbe3f"},"modified":"2018-01-23T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:10:46","slug":"news-story-civil-news-improving-quality-of-family-advocacy-online-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88261","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: improving quality of family advocacy online claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Changes have been made to CCMS to help improve the quality of the online claims you make under the Family Advocacy Scheme (FAS).<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to make it more likely that your claim will not be rejected, so avoiding the need for work to be resubmitted.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-will-the-changes-work\">How will the changes work?<\/h3>\n<p>Improvements are being made to CCMS to enforce fee scheme rules for hearings claimed under FAS.<br \/>\nThese mean that it will no longer be possible to claim:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FAS hearing and bolt-on activities within the same category of work<\/li>\n<li>above allowed amounts per case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An example would be where a claim for a third advocates\u2019 bundle for an interim hearing is claimed. Where this happens CCMS will now display an error message and will not allow the bill to progress.<\/p>\n<p>CCMS will also prevent issues such as claiming for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an interim hearing and final hearing advocates\u2019 bundle on the same day<\/li>\n<li>over-claiming of Counsel conference fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"check-before-claiming\">Check before claiming<\/h3>\n<p>Counsel and providers may need to check with another where court bundles are being claimed to ensure the correct information is entered.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of issues, the first action should be to liaise with the instructed parties on a case. This is preferable to calling the Legal Aid Agency to check who has claimed the bundle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making online claims under the Family Advocacy Scheme should be helped by changes to the Client and Cost Management System (CCMS).<\/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\/88261"}],"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=88261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}