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14.6Remuneration rates are set out in the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) Regulations 2013. These have been amended as follows:
•Criminal Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 changed the scope of prison law;
•Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 codified VHCC rates and reduced expert fees for cases started on or after 2 December 2013;
•Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 reduced most rates (the main exception being Advocates Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS) rates) by 8.75 per cent from 20 March 2014;
•Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment No 2) Regulations 2014 introduced additional interim payments and removed some cases from fixed fees;
•Civil and Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 prescribed rates for civil injunctions under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014;
•Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 prescribed for payments to be made to trial rather than to instructed advocates;
•Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration etc) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 imposed a (in the result time limited) further 8.75 per cent cut (again except in AGFS cases) from 1 July 2015 and made amendments to the fee structures applying from 11 January 2016;
•Civil and Criminal Legal Aid (Amendment) Regulations 2015 further provisions on civil injunctions;
•Civil and Criminal legal Aid (Amendment) (No2) Regulations 2015 amended definitions;
•Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration etc.) (Amendment) (No2) Regulations 2015 delays the effect of the Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration etc) Regulations 2015 above, postponing the second 8.75% fee cut;
•Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 effectively repeals Criminal Legal Aid (Remuneration etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2015.
14.7It is therefore not always easy to work out which rates apply to which cases. You should start with the main 2013 Regulations and then check later Regulations to see if there have been amendments relevant to your particular case. Unfortunately no single consolidated set of rates exists. For cases where the UFN, for advice and assistance and advocacy assistance, and the date of the representation order, for representation cases, that is cases started on or after 1 April 2016, the rates are set out in this edition and correct at the time of going to print.