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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-services-remuneration-order-northern-ireland-2015/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/201",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Services (Remuneration) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-services-remuneration-order-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“advice”, “assistance” and “representation” have the respective meanings given by Article 2(2) of the 2003 Order;\n“certificate” means a certificate granted under the General Regulations;\n“civil legal services” has the meaning given by Article 10 of the 2003 Order;\n“costs” means, in the case of a solicitor, the remuneration and disbursements payable under Article 12(3) of the 2003 Order and, in the case of counsel, the remuneration payable under that provision;\n“counsel” means counsel authorised by the Director under regulation 31 of the General Regulations and selected to act for an assisted person;\n“the Department” means the Department of Justice;\n“the Director” means the Director of Legal Aid Casework designated by the Department under section 2 of the Legal Aid and Coroners' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 ;\n“disbursements” means travelling and witness expenses and other out of pocket expenses incurred by a solicitor in providing civil legal services;\n“fee-earner” means a solicitor or any clerk who regularly does work for which it is appropriate to make a direct charge to the client;\n“the Financial Regulations” mean the Civil Legal Services (Financial) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 ;\n“the General Regulations” mean the Civil Legal Services (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 ;\n“the 2003 Order” means the Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“representation” (higher courts) and representation (lower courts) have the respective meanings given by regulation 2 of the General Regulations;\n“representative” means a solicitor or counsel.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2014 c. 11 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "2015 S.R. No. 196"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "2015 S.R. No. 195"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/201/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:01:56.528759+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}