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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2045",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives the Legal Services Commission a discretion to apply the graduated fees applicable to Crown Court cases as set out in Schedule 4 to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001 (“the 2001 Order”) to Very High Cost Cases.\nIt also amends the definition of a Very High Cost Case as provided for in the 2001 Order to a case where if it proceeds to trial, that trial would be likely to last for 41 days or longer.\nThe main amendments to the 2001 Order are as follows:\narticle 6 makes an amendment to correct a drafting error in Schedule 2 to the 2001 Order\narticle 8(c)(i) substitutes current tables in paragraph 8 in Part 2 of Schedule 4 with revised tables and article 8(c)(ii) provides for new tables in paragraph 8\narticle 9(a) provides for a new special preparation fee where the pages of prosecution evidence exceed 10,000\narticle 11 substitutes current tables in Schedule 5 with revised tables.\nThis Order also makes a number of amendments which are consequential on the above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2045/note",
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  },
  "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."
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