{"id":93426,"date":"2018-06-29T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a78d6dcd14b1310bb2cc33762b3c610e"},"modified":"2018-06-29T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:55:21","slug":"news-story-crime-news-contract-amendments-and-new-duty-solicitor-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93426","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: contract amendments and new duty solicitor guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We are updating the 2017 Standard Crime Contract and associated guidance.<\/p>\n<p>This is to help duty solicitors when considering the 14 hours of work duty solicitor requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are being made following consultations with representative bodies and come into effect on 23 July 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-is-changing\">What is changing?<\/h3>\n<p>We are changing the types of work activity that may be included in the 14-hour calculation.<\/p>\n<p>This now includes Crown Court, courts martial and some privately-funded work.<\/p>\n<p>The duty solicitor guidance expands on these points and explains our approach when dealing with duty solicitor compliance.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"why-are-you-telling-us-now\">Why are you telling us now?<\/h3>\n<p>We need to give providers enough time to understand the amendments in time for the CRM12 deadline for the October duty rotas.<\/p>\n<p>This has been extended until the date of the changes \u2013 23 July 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/standard-crime-contract-2017\">Standard Crime Contract 2017<\/a> \u2013 to download amended crime contract and new guidance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/crm12-duty-solicitor-application-when-moving-firm\">CRM12 duty solicitor application when moving firm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update on what duty solicitors can include when calculating required 14 hours of work each week following consultation with rep bodies.<\/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\/93426"}],"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=93426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}