Paragraph 2 Bolt on fees - advocate’s bundleF1

(1)

The Lord Chancellor must pay a bolt-on fee at the rates set out in tables 1(d) (Public Law – bolt-on fee – advocate’s bundle payments) or 2(e) (Private Law Children and finance – bolt-on fees – advocate’s bundle payment) as applicable to an advocate providing advocacy services in family proceedings where—

(a)

the advocate’s bundle for a hearing exceeds 350 pages; and

(b)

the advocate submits a claim on a form specified by the Lord Chancellor.

(2)

An advocate must provide any additional information or documents requested by the Lord Chancellor as evidence that paragraph 2(1)(a) is satisfied.

(3)

For the purposes of this paragraph the advocate’s bundle—

(a)

may only include—

(i)

those documents relevant to the case which have been served by the parties to the proceedings to which the hearing relates; and

(ii)

notes of contact visits if included in the court bundle; and

(b)

must include a paginated index agreed by the parties to those proceedings.

(4)

In this paragraph, “court bundle” means the bundle prepared for the hearing to which the claim relates in accordance with Practice Direction 27A - Family Proceedings: Court Bundles (universal practice to be applied in the High Court and Family Court) to the Family Procedure Rules 2010.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 3 para. 2 inserted (31.7.2014) by The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1389), regs. 1, 2(4)(a) (with reg. 3)