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Paragraph 7

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The amount of the graduated fee for a single trial advocate representing one assisted person being tried on one indictment in the Crown Court shall be calculated according to the following formula:

G=B+(d×D)+(e×E)+(w×W)+(d×R).
(2)

In the formula in sub-paragraph (1):

  • G is the amount of the graduated fee;

  • B is the basic fee specified in paragraph 8 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate instructed;

  • d is the number of days or parts of a day by which the trial exceeds one day;

  • e is the number of pages of prosecution evidence excluding the first 50;

  • w is the number of prosecution witnesses excluding the first 10;

  • D is the length of trial uplifts specified in paragraph 8 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate instructed;

  • E is the evidence uplift specified in paragraph 8 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate instructed;

  • W is the witness uplift specified in paragraph 8 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate instructed;

  • R is the refresher specified in paragraph 8 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate instructed.