Paragraph 4
This Schedule does not apply to any case where:
the representation order provides for the services of more than two trial advocates;
(without prejudice to anything in CDS Regulations) any of the trial advocate’s work in connection with the case is done or remunerated otherwise than under a representation order;
a hearing is held to determine the question of whether the assisted person is unfit to plead or unfit to be tried;
one or more registered medical practitioners has given oral evidence for the purposes of section 37(2)(a) of the Mental Health Act 1983f1; or
the length of the main hearing, or the combined length of the main hearing and of any hearing to which paragraph 2(6), 13 or 14 applies, exceeds 10 days (or 5 days where one of the counts is for an offence falling within Class I).
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