Regulation 6 Determination of solicitors' fees
Subject to paragraph (5), the appropriate authority may allow work done by fee-earners in the following classes—
preparation, including taking instructions, interviewing witnesses, ascertaining the prosecution case, advising on plea and mode of trial, preparing and perusing documents, dealing with letters and telephone calls which are not routine, preparing for advocacy, instructing counsel and expert witnesses, conferences, consultations, views and work done in connection with advice on appeal or case stated;
advocacy, including applications for bail and other applications to the court;
attendance at court where counsel is assigned, including conferences with counsel at court;
travelling and waiting;
dealing with routine letters written and routine telephone calls.
The appropriate authority shall consider the claim, any further particulars, information or documents submitted by the solicitor under regulation 5 and any other relevant information and shall allow—
such work as appears to it to have been actually and reasonably done under the legal aid order (including any representation or advice which is deemed to be work done under that order) by a fee-earner, classifying such work according to the classes specified in paragraph (1) as it considers appropriate; and
such time in respect of each class of work allowed by it (other than dealing with routine letters written and routine telephone calls) as it considers reasonable
and, in any proceedings which are specified in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 Part II, the appropriate authority shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of that Part of that Schedule.
Subject to paragraphs (2) and (4), the appropriate authority shall allow fees for work allowed by it under this regulation in accordance with Schedule 1 Part I; provided that, where any work allowed was done after 30th June 1989, it may allow such fees as appear to it to be fair remuneration for such work having regard to the rates specified in that Part of Schedule 1.
In the case of proceedings in the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal, the fees allowed in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 shall be those appropriate to such of the following grades of fee-earner as the appropriate authority considers reasonable—
senior solicitor,
solicitor, legal executive or fee-earner of equivalent experience,
articled clerk or fee-earner of equivalent experience.
This regulation applies to work in respect of which standard fees are payable under Part II of Schedule 1 only to the extent that that Part specifically so provides.