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Civil Guidance
Advice and Assistance Accounts
Introduction to civil A&A and ABWOR fees
Introduction to civil A&A accounts legislation
Basis on which we assess requests for payment of AA fees and outlays: the standard of taxation
Tables of fees available for civil advice and assistance
Cases where you are not due payment from the Fund: restrictions on what you can charge your client
Civil legal aid already in place
What information should you supply with your civil A&A account?
Payment under civil advice and assistance
Assessment of advice and assistance accounts: providing proportionate advice and potential abatements
Payment under advice and assistance
“First port of call” provisions: payment sources to look to before making a claim on the Fund
How to calculate and seek payment for A&A: the role of expenses/property recovered or preserved
Payment for A&A where claiming judicial expenses: no claims on Fund or your client
Diagnostic interview
Payment for diagnostic work where standard A&A later becomes available
Submission of diagnostic advice and assistance accounts: timebar after three months
Diagnostic advice and assistance: definition and expenditure limit
Who may give advice and assistance and ABWOR
Understanding what is properly chargeable in accounts: who can provide advice and assistance?
Advice and assistance accounts: delegation of work to unqualified person
AA/ABWOR accounts: what counts as ‘representation’
Advice and assistance accounts: can I undertake chargeable work if my practicing certificate has been restricted?
Can I delegate advice and assistance to an out of house professional?
Employment of and payment for counsel under A&A: prior authority required
Preparation and submission of an account
Preparing an A&A account: no charge payable
Submission of A&A accounts including diagnostics: date by which we must receive your account
Submission of accounts when both A&A and civil legal aid have been provided
When should an ABWOR account be submitted?
Sources of payment for A&A accounts: the hierarchy of payments and Fund as last port of call
Circumstances in which the higher limit for expenditure on A&A may be available
A&A accounts and increases in authorised expenditure
Information you should retain to vouch for your accounts
The account - fees
No work chargeable before advice and assistance is granted
Providing sufficient information for the assessment of account entries
Fees for the initial meeting and taking instructions from the client
Time chargeable for subsequent meetings with client
Fees payable for letters under advice and assistance
Circumstances in which you may charge for perusing correspondence under A&A
Rates allowable and information you should provide with the account entry for telephone calls
Fees payable for the taking of a precognitions in A&A cases
The rate payable for perusal of documents in A&A accounts
No fee payable for letters to us accompanying increase applications
The account - outlays
A&A accounts: test applied for whether outlays charged are allowable
A&A accounts and increases: authorised level of expenditure not automatically payable
A&A accounts and counsel’s fees: demonstrating work was reasonable, and procedure for payment
A&A accounts and mileage: the flat rate payable
Reimbursement of outlays: circumstances in which reimbursement is available
A&A outlays and payment for expert reports: requirement of prior approval
Outlays payable for experts located at a distance from court: information you should provide
Issues arising with different types of A&A
Requirement for increase to be granted and implications for property recovered or preserved for conveyancing work
Increases and cost-sharing between parties in family mediation
No fees payable for precognitions for Criminal Injuries Compensation Agency work
ABWOR
What is ABWOR and who may provide it?
Proceedings you need our prior approval to provide ABWOR in
ABWOR accounts and the employment of counsel: requirement of prior approval and charges for unauthorised advocacy
When are affidavit charges payable in ABWOR cases?
Block fees payable and charges subsumed under ABWOR in sequestration proceedings
ABWOR payments for hearings before tribunals
Factors to consider and payment implications when instructing local agents for your ABWOR accounts
Specific information and justification required for our assessment of fees for preparation work
Travel
A&A general rules for travel-related charges: client should travel to you, and methods of travel
A&A charges for consecutive days’ travel: is it cost effective?
When does travel become chargeable under A&A? Information you must be satisfied on
A&A travel costs: steps you should take to ensure costs will meet the statutory tests
Payment for travel outwith normal hours: what location will we pay you from?
Advice and Assistance accounts and travel: flat mileage rate payable and parking charges
Payment for travel and the appropriate apportionment of cost between clients: general policy
Travel costs for one destination: attending on multiple clients and when to round up time spent
Travel costs where multiple destinations: how to appropriately allocate costs where equal apportionment is not possible
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