# The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2001, Paragraph 24


(1) Where in any case on indictment two trial advocates are instructed to represent the same assisted person:
(a) if the leading advocate is a Queen’s Counsel, he shall receive the same graduated fee as if he were appearing alone;
(b) if the leading advocate is not a Queen’s Counsel, he shall receive seventy-five per cent of the graduated fee payable to Queen’s Counsel appearing alone;
(c) in either case, the junior advocate shall receive one-half of the graduated fee payable to a Queen’s Counsel appearing alone.
(2) Where the assisted person is represented by a single trial advocate and another person charged on the same indictment with an offence falling within the same class is represented by two trial advocates, the single trial advocate shall receive the same graduated fee as if he were appearing as junior to another trial advocate.
(3) Sub-paragraph (2) shall not apply where the charge which the single trial advocate is instructed to defend (or where there is more than one such charge, the charge forming the basis of remuneration in accordance with paragraph 23(1)) is for an offence falling within Class A.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/855/schedule/4/paragraph/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2001/schedule-4/paragraph-24
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