{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2008/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2008/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/957",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2008",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 2007 Order",
  "text": "After paragraph 24 of Schedule 2 to the 2007 Order insert—\n“Very High Cost Cases\n25. (1) This paragraph applies where, in a Very High Cost Case, a litigator instructs an advocate who is not a member of a Very High Cost Case (Crime) Panel, in accordance with the contract.\n(2) The litigator may claim payment from the Commission in respect of work undertaken by the advocate and authorised in accordance with the contract.\n(3) Where such a claim is made, the Commission must pay the litigator at rates no higher than the rates set out in the tables following this paragraph.\n(4) In this paragraph “the contract” means the Very High Cost Case contract for panel members, made between the Commission and panel members and dated 2nd April 2008.\n(5) In the tables following this paragraph—\n(a) a reference in the first table to a category is a reference to that category as defined in the contract;\n(b) a reference in the first table to a level A or B solicitor-advocate is a reference to a level A or B solicitor-advocate as defined in the contract;\n(c) a reference in the second table to a junior includes a solicitor-advocate.\nPreparation (hourly rates)\nCategory 1\n£\nCategory 2\n£\nCategory 3\n£\nCategory 4\n£\nCounsel\nQC\n145\n113\n91\n91\nLeading junior\n127\n100\n79\n79\nLed junior\n91\n73\n61\n61\nJunior alone\n100\n82\n70\n70\n2nd led junior\n63\n50\n43\n43\nSolicitor-advocate\nLeading level A\n145\n113\n91\n91\nLed level A\n127\n100\n79\n79\nLeading level B\n127\n100\n79\n79\nLed level B\n104\n86\n66\n66\nLevel A alone\n131\n109\n88\n88\nLevel B alone\n113\n95\n75\n75\nSecond advocate\n63\n50\n43\n43\nAdvocacy\nPreliminary hearing\n£\nHalf day\n£\nFull day\n£\nQC\n113\n238\n476\nLeading junior\n86\n195\n390\nLed junior\n58\n126\n252\nJunior alone\n67\n143\n285\nSecond led junior\n34\n64\n128\nNoter\n29\n55\n109\nTravelling, waiting and mileage\n£25 per hour for travelling (up to a maximum of four hours in one day) or waiting\n£0.45 per mile for mileage\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The contract is available from the Legal Services Commission, 85 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8TX and at www.legalservices.gov.uk."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/957/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:19.418196+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."
}