{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2001/article-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/855",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2001",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Very High Cost Cases—assignment of cases to categories and solicitors to levels",
  "text": "(1) The Commission or, as the case may be, the appropriate officer shall assign each case which is a Very High Cost Case to one of the four categories referred to in Schedule 5, according to its complexity, importance and subject matter.\n(2) The Commission or, as the case may be, the appropriate officer shall assign each solicitor or other fee earner (other than a barrister acting as an advocate) providing funded services in relation to a case which is a Very High Cost Case to one of the three levels referred to in Schedule 5.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1256",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/855/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:57:33.921504+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."
}