Including outlays within your account

Outlays should always be included in your account but in a separate column and totaled separately from work chargeable as a fee.

Receipts and vouchers

To help us assess your account please send us, where appropriate, the following with your account:

  • Receipts and detailed vouchers for all payments claimed.
  • All advocates’ fee notes.

For paper accounts where you have made interim claims for outlays you should still send us copies of all vouching.

Travel outlays

In this section

The Account (outlays)

Travel outlays

Find out about what outlays for your travel can be claimed in your account.

The Account (outlays)

General guidance on witness expenses applicable to all witness types

Find out about the legal aid rates payable for witnesses and whether value added tax can be added to a witness’s note of fee.

The Account (outlays)

Outlays for expert witnesses cited to attend court

Find out what outlays are chargeable for an expert witness cited to attend court, including travel, accommodation and subsistence costs.

The Account (outlays)

Outlays for professional witnesses cited to attend court

Find out what the definition is of a professional witness and what outlays to professional witnesses are chargeable including police witnesses and interpreters.

The Account (outlays)

Outlays for ordinary witnesses cited to attend court

Find out what outlays can be claimed for ordinary witnesses cited to attend court, including travel, subsistence and child minding costs.

The Account (outlays)

Fees payable to Sheriff officers and Messengers at arms

Find out when you can recover the cost of instructing sheriff officers or messengers at arms as an outlay.

The Account (outlays)

Counsels fees

Find out whether counsel’s fees are considered an outlay and how they are paid.