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Paragraph 4 Calculation of Graduated Fees

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 in a trial lasting one to 40 days must be calculated in accordance with the following formula—

G = B + (d x D) + (e x E) + (w x W)

(2)

In the formula in sub-paragraph (1)—

G is the amount of the graduated fee;

B is the basic fee specified in the Table following paragraph 5 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate;

d is the number of days or parts of a day on which the advocate attends at court by which the trial exceeds 2 days but does not exceed 40 days;

D is the fee payable in respect of daily attendance at court for the number of days by which the trial exceeds two days but does not exceed 40 days, as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate;

e is the number of pages of prosecution evidence excluding the first 50, up to a maximum of 10,000;

E is the evidence uplift specified in the Table following paragraph 5 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate;

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

W is the witness uplift specified in the Table following paragraph 5 as appropriate to the offence for which the assisted person is tried and the category of trial advocate.