{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2007/article-27",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1174",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-defence-service-funding-order-2007",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Adverse observations",
  "text": "(1) Where in any proceedings to which Schedule 1, 2, 3 or 4 applies, the court makes adverse observations concerning a representative’s conduct of the proceedings, the appropriate officer may reduce any fee which would otherwise be payable in accordance with Schedule 1, 2, 3 or 4 by such proportion as he considers reasonable.\n(2) Before reducing the fee payable to a representative in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1), the appropriate officer must give the representative the opportunity to make representations about whether it is appropriate to reduce the fee and the extent to which the fee should be reduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/3552",
      "affecting_title": "The Criminal Defence Service (Funding) (Amendment) Order 2007"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1174/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:55:19.074834+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}