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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/855",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001",
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  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Claims for costs by solicitors",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 23, no claim by a solicitor for costs in respect of work done under a representation order shall be entertained unless he submits it within three months of the conclusion of the proceedings to which it relates.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), a claim for costs shall be submitted to the appropriate officer in such form and manner as he may direct and shall be accompanied by the representation order and any receipts or other documents in support of any disbursement claimed.\n(3) A claim shall:\n(a) summarise the items of work done by a fee-earner in respect of which fees are claimed according to the classes specified in paragraph 12(1);\n(b) state, where appropriate, the dates on which the items of work were done, the time taken, the sums claimed and whether the work was done for more than one assisted person;\n(c) specify, where appropriate, the fee-earner who undertook each of the items of work claimed;\n(d) give particulars of any work done in relation to more than one indictment or a retrial; and\n(e) specify any disbursements claimed, the circumstances in which they were incurred and the amounts claimed in respect of them.\n(4) Where the solicitor claims that paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 Part 1 should be applied in relation to an item of work, he shall give full particulars in support of his claim.\n(5) The solicitor shall specify any special circumstances which should be drawn to the attention of the appropriate officer.\n(6) The solicitor shall supply such further particulars, information and documents as the appropriate officer may require.\n(7) Where a representation order has been made in respect of any proceedings where a defendant has been acquitted and granted a defendant’s costs order under section 16 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, the solicitor shall certify that no claim for costs incurred before the representation order was made has been or will be made from central funds in relation to that work.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "1985 c. 23."
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