A&A travel costs: steps you should take to ensure costs will meet the statutory tests

You should take practical steps to ensure that the additional cost of travel is kept to a minimum.

The steps you can take include the following:

  • Plan travel as far in advance as possible to ensure you are not travelling to the same destination over consecutive days.
  • Combine journeys wherever possible.
  • Where attending on more than one client at different destinations you should plan the most efficient route. You or an unqualified person should attend to clients in a particular area.
  • Car journeys should be shared where solicitors are travelling to the same place.
  • Avoid peak time travel where possible.

Giving details of the postcodes of the departure point and destination helps us to assess your account more quickly. We routinely check distance and duration of travel using various route planners. We will restrict claims that exceed the recommended duration or distance unless you explain why.

A&A charges for consecutive days’ travel: is it cost effective?
Payment for travel outwith normal hours: what location will we pay you from?

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Travel

When does travel become chargeable under A&A? Information you must be satisfied on

Find out the information you need to be satisfied about before you will be paid to travel to meet a client.

Travel

A&A and general rules for travel-related charges

Find out more about the general rules for travel in the context of civil A&A accounts, including on methods of travel.

Travel

A&A charges for consecutive days’ travel: is it cost effective?

Find out when we will pay for travel to the same location on consecutive days.

Travel

Payment for travel outwith normal hours: what location will we pay you from?

Find out which location we will pay you from for travel out with normal office hours.

Travel

Advice and Assistance accounts and travel: flat mileage rate payable and parking charges

Learn useful information about the milage allowance, VAT and parking charges for your A&A account.

Travel

Payment for travel and the appropriate apportionment of cost between clients: general policy

Find out about how travel costs should be apportioned where you have multiple clients, including various examples.

Travel

Travel costs for one destination: attending on multiple clients and when to round up time spent

Find out about charging for travel costs where you have visited multiple clients at one destination.

Travel

Travel costs where multiple destinations: how to appropriately allocate costs where equal apportionment is not possible

Read about how to allocate costs where equal apportionment cannot be done, including a worked example.