Regulation 6 Claims for costs

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 6(3)(d) words inserted by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) 2013 Sch. para. 1(4)
reg.6 amended by Costs in Criminal Cases (General) 1999 reg.3
reg. 6(3)(a) modified by Solicitors' Incorporated Practices 1991 art. 4 5 Sch. 1
regs 6, 8 am by Costs in Criminal Cases (General) 2001 reg 2
reg. 6(3)(a) applied (with modifications) by Legal Services Act 2007 (Designation as a Licensing Authority) 2011 art. 8(1)(2) Sch. 2
reg. 6(2) words substituted by Courts Act 2003 (Consequential Provisions) 2005 Sch. para. 99
reg 6 am by Costs in Criminal Cases (General) 2008 regs 2, 8
reg 6 rev in pt by Costs in Criminal Cases (General) 2008 regs 2, 8

(1)

Subject to regulation 12, no claim for costs shall be entertained unless it is submitted within three months of the date on which the costs order was made.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), a claim for costs shall be submitted to the appropriate authority in such form and manner as it may direct and shall be accompanied by any receipts or other documents in support of any disbursements claimed.

(3)

A claim shall—

(a)

summarise the items of work done by a solicitor;

(b)

state, where appropriate, the dates on which items of work were done, the time taken and the sums claimed, and

(c)

specify any disbursements claimed, including counsel's fees, the circumstances in which they were incurred and the amounts claimed in respect of them.

(4)

Where there are any special circumstances which should be drawn to the attention of the appropriate authority, the applicant shall specify them.

(5)

The applicant shall supply such further particulars, information and documents as the appropriate authority may require.