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You should be aware that where an additional fee is being sought, regard should be had to the case cost limit imposed to the grant of legal aid [section 14(1F) of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986]. The cost limit has no bearing on the decision to grant an additional fee, so be mindful of your responsibility to ensure that where an additional fee is granted, the cost limit in place is sufficient to meet the cost of the accounting.
The following eight clearly identifiable and objectively verifiable criteria are what we will consider before allowing any additional fee. It is important that you demonstrate in the application for an additional fee that:
We have sole discretion whether to allow any uplift.
The factors are:
Note on the application of chapter III of Schedule 6 of the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989
(a) Except where an uplift is granted under paragraph 5, 6 or 7 above, the element of your fee subject to an uplift will exclude any amount charged in relation to time spent waiting or appearing at, court.
(b) Only one of paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 may be claimed in any case.
(c) An uplift may not be granted under paragraph 7 above where a fee under paragraph 4(k) of the table of fees in Chapter II of Schedule 6 is claimed.
(d) The solicitor of an assisted person, who is a vulnerable witness, may not claim in respect of the assisted person the additional fee under paragraphs 2, 3 or 4, if there is a claim under paragraph 5A in respect of the assisted person as a vulnerable witness.
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