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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-funding-amendment-no2-order-2011/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2066",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-legal-service-funding-amendment-no2-order-2011",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 2007 Order",
  "text": "After article 5B insert—\n“Remuneration of barristers in independent practice providing funded services under a certificate in civil (non-family) proceedings\n5C. (1) This article applies where—\n(a) funded services are provided by a barrister in independent practice under a certificate; and\n(b) the funded services are not advocacy services in family proceedings to which article 5A applies.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Commission must fund payments to a barrister in independent practice at the hourly rates set out in Schedule 7.\n(3) The Commission may increase the hourly rate for junior counsel in the county court if it considers it reasonable to do so.\n(4) For the purposes of this article and Schedule 7—\n(a) “junior counsel” means a barrister in independent practice of less than 10 years call; and\n(b) “senior counsel” means a barrister in independent practice of 10 years call or more.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2066/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:57:48.636290+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."
}