Paragraph 23
Where an assisted person is charged with more than one offence on one indictment, the graduated fee payable to the trial advocate shall be based on whichever of those offences he shall select for the purposes.
Where two or more cases to which this Schedule applies involving the same trial advocate are heard concurrently (whether involving the same or different assisted persons):
the trial advocate shall select one case (“the principal case”), which shall be treated for the purposes of remuneration in accordance with the previous paragraphs of this Schedule;
in respect of the main hearing in each of the other cases the trial advocate shall be paid a fixed fee of twenty per cent of:
the basic fee for the principal case, where that is a case falling within paragraph 2, or
the fixed fee for the principal case, where that is a case falling within paragraph 3.
Where a person appears at a hearing specified in paragraph 11, 12(2), 13, 14, 15 or 16(a) or (b), forming part of two or more cases involving different assisted persons, he shall be paid:
in respect of the first such case, the fixed fee for that hearing specified in the Table following paragraph 22; and
in respect of each of the other cases, twenty per cent of that fee.
Subject to sub-paragraphs (1) to (3), where a person appears at a hearing forming part of two or more cases, he shall be paid the fixed fee for that hearing specified in the Table following paragraph 22 in respect of one such case, without any increase in respect of the other cases.