3. Allow earlier and/or more regular claims for interim payments, & allow fixed payments to be claimed when trials are adjourned for Covid-19 reasons (in line with warrants & long deferred sentences)

We need to make changes to our case management and accounts systems but we are working on that. Changes need to be developed and rigorously tested to ensure that ‘normal’ accounts processing can continue uninterrupted.

Our aim is to have this up and running so that solicitors can start sending us 'new' interim claims as soon as their stocks of final accounts and 'existing' interim claims declines.