Guidance on chargeable work

Guidance on chargeable work

• Advocacy
• Written representations where they replace the need for any oral hearing
• Waiting
• Non-Advocacy
• Preparation
• Research
• Meetings
• Perusal
• Solicitor’s clerks – the “unqualified” fee
• Framing
• Precognitions
• Letters
• Telephone calls
• Citations
• Instructing messengers-at-arms and sheriff officers
• Lodging
• Intimating
• Uplifting from court
• Enquiry for documents
• Revising papers drawn by counsel or where ordered by the court – per five sheets
• Photocopying & Printing