{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2010/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2010/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/679",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-amendment-order-2010",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007",
  "text": "After article 12 insert—\n“Either way offences\n12A. (1) The Commission may remunerate a litigator for work done in relation to committal proceedings only in accordance with this article.\n(2) Where a litigator represents an assisted person in the Crown Court who was committed for trial, the fee payable to that litigator for work done in relation to the committal proceedings, including attending any hearing in the magistrates’ court, is included within the fixed fee payable for such proceedings under Part 3 of Schedule 2.\n(3) The Commission may remunerate a litigator for work done in relation to committal proceedings only where—\n(a) that litigator acted for the assisted person in relation to those proceedings; and\n(b) a representation order provides for that litigator to represent the assisted person in the Crown Court.\n(4) Where—\n(a) a litigator represents more than one assisted person in relation to related proceedings; and\n(b) any or all of those assisted persons are committed for trial at the same hearing,\nthe Commission may pay only a single fixed fee in remuneration for representing all those assisted persons in the committal proceedings.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/679/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:48:56.650222+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."
}