Regulation 13 Amendment of Schedule 1 (advocates’ graduated fee scheme)

Paragraph 19A (fees for further case management hearings and plea and trial preparation hearings) is amended as follows.

The existing paragraph is renumbered as sub-paragraph (1).

After sub-paragraph (1) insert—

“(2)

But if a guilty plea is entered at a plea and trial preparation hearing, the fee payable to the advocate for that hearing is the amount set out in Table A following paragraph 8 which corresponds with the band within which the offence falls and the category of the advocate concerned.”.