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PART 3 Graduated Fees for Guilty Pleas and Cracked Trials

Calculation of graduated fees in guilty pleas and cracked trials—

6.  The amount of the graduated fee for a single trial advocate representing one assisted person in a guilty plea or cracked trial is—

(a) the basic fee specified in the table following paragraph 7 as appropriate to the offence with which the assisted person is charged, the category of trial advocate and whether the case is a guilty plea or a cracked trial; and

(b) the evidence uplift, as appropriate to the number of pages of prosecution evidence, calculated in accordance with the table following paragraph 7.

Tables of fees

7.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), for the purposes of paragraph 6 the basic fee and evidence uplift appropriate to any offence are specified in the Tables following this paragraph in accordance with the class within which that offence falls.

(2) Where—

(a) the trial of a case does not commence on the date first fixed; or

(b) the case is not taken and disposed of from the first warned list in which it is entered,

the basic fee and evidence uplift for the offence are specified for the last third in the Table referred to in sub-paragraph (1).

(3) In this paragraph, and in the Tables following this paragraph, references to the first, second and last third are references to the first, second and last third—

(a) where a case is first listed for trial on a fixed date, of the period of time beginning after the date on which the case is so listed and ending before the date so fixed,

(b) where the case is first placed in a warned list, of the period of time beginning after the date on which the case is so placed and ending before the date of the start of that warned list, and

where the number of days in this period of time cannot be divided by three equally, any days remaining after such division must be added to the last third.

(4) Where a graduated fee is calculated in accordance with this Part for the purposes of paragraph 2(4), the fee must be calculated as if the trial had cracked in the final third.

Table A -Fees and uplifts in guilty pleas and trials which crack in the first third
Class of Offence Basic fee Evidence uplift per page of prosecution evidence (pages 1 to 1,000) Evidence uplift per page of prosecution evidence (1,001 to 10,000)
QC
A £2,358.00 £2.53 £1.17
B £1,509.00 £2.08 £1.04
C £1,415.00 £1.48 £0.74
D £1,509.00 £3.30 £1.65
E £1,250.00 £1.06 £0.53
F £1,250.00 £1.39 £0.70
G £1,415.00 £1.84 £0.92
H £1,415.00 £1.91 £0.95
I £1,415.00 £1.86 £0.92
J £1,981.00 £3.30 £1.65
K £1,981.00 £1.84 £0.92
Leading Junior
A £1,768.50 £1.90 £0.88
B £1,131.75 £1.56 £0.78
C £1,061.25 £1.11 £0.56
D £1,131.75 £2.48 £1.24
E £937.50 £0.80 £0.40
F £937.50 £1.04 £0.53
G £1,061.25 £1.38 £0.69
H £1,061.25 £1.43 £0.71
I £1,061.25 £1.40 £0.69
J £1,485.75 £2.48 £1.24
K £1,485.75 £1.38 £0.69
Led Junior
A £1,179.00 £1.27 £0.59
B £754.50 £1.04 £0.52
C £707.50 £0.74 £0.37
D £754.50 £1.65 £0.83
E £625.00 £0.53 £0.27
F £625.00 £0.70 £0.35
G £707.50 £0.92 £0.46
H £707.50 £0.96 £0.48
I £707.50 £0.93 £0.46
J £990.50 £1.65 £0.83
K £990.50 £0.92 £0.46
Junior alone
A £1,312.00 £1.08 £0.54
B £802.00 £0.94 £0.47
C £519.00 £0.69 £0.35
D £802.00 £1.37 £0.68
E £472.00 £0.41 £0.20
F £472.00 £0.63 £0.31
G £755.00 £1.18 £0.59
H £566.00 £0.63 £0.32
I £660.00 £0.49 £0.25
J £1,132.00 £1.37 £0.68
K £1,132.00 £1.18 £0.59
Table B -Fees and uplifts in trials which crack in the second or final third
A case that cracks in the second third A case that cracks in the final third
Class of Offence Basic Fee Evidence uplift per page of prosecution evidence (pages 1 to 250) Evidence uplift per page of prosecution evidence (pages 251 to 1,000) Evidence uplift per page of prosecution evidence (pages 1,001 to 10,000) Evidence uplift per page of prosecution evidence (pages 1,001 to 10,000)
QC
A £3,585.00 £4.70 £1.17 £1.55 £4.70
B £2,264.00 £4.16 £1.04 £1.38 £4.16
C £1,975.00 £2.95 £0.74 £0.97 £2.95
D £2,264.00 £6.59 £1.65 £2.18 £6.59
E £1,600.00 £2.11 £0.53 £0.70 £2.11
F £1,600.00 £2.77 £0.70 £0.92 £2.77
G £2,000.00 £3.68 £0.92 £1.22 £3.68
H £2,000.00 £3.80 £0.95 £1.25 £3.80
I £2,075.00 £3.72 £0.92 £1.23 £3.72
J £3,019.00 £6.59 £1.65 £2.18 £6.59
K £3,019.00 £3.68 £0.92 £1.22 £3.68
Leading Junior
A £2,688.75 £3.53 £0.88 £1.16 £3.53
B £1,698.00 £3.12 £0.78 £1.04 £3.12
C £1,481.25 £2.21 £0.56 £0.73 £2.21
D £1,698.00 £4.94 £1.24 £1.64 £4.94
E £1,200.00 £1.58 £0.40 £0.53 £1.58
F £1,200.00 £2.08 £0.53 £0.69 £2.08
G £1,500.00 £2.76 £0.69 £0.92 £2.76
H £1,500.00 £2.85 £0.71 £0.94 £2.85
I £1,556.25 £2.79 £0.69 £0.92 £2.79
J £2,264.25 £4.94 £1.24 £1.64 £4.94
K £2,264.25 £2.76 £0.69 £0.92 £2.76
Led Junior
A £1,792.50 £2.35 £0.59 £0.78 £2.35
B £1,132.00 £2.08 £0.52 £0.69 £2.08
C £987.50 £1.48 £0.37 £0.49 £1.48
D £1,132.00 £3.30 £0.83 £1.09 £3.30
E £800.00 £1.06 £0.27 £0.35 £1.06
F £800.00 £1.39 £0.35 £0.46 £1.39
G £1,000.00 £1.84 £0.46 £0.61 £1.84
H £1,000.00 £1.90 £0.48 £0.63 £1.90
I £1,037.50 £1.86 £0.46 £0.62 £1.86
J £1,509.50 £3.30 £0.83 £1.09 £3.30
K £1,509.50 £1.84 £0.46 £0.61 £1.84
Junior alone
A £1,981.00 £4.63 £2.15 £0.71 £2.15
B £1,179.00 £4.03 £1.88 £0.62 £1.88
C £755.00 £2.99 £1.39 £0.46 £1.39
D £1,050.00 £5.87 £2.73 £0.90 £2.73
E £660.00 £1.75 £0.82 £0.27 £0.82
F £660.00 £2.70 £1.25 £0.42 £1.25
G £1,132.00 £5.08 £2.37 £0.78 £2.37
H £802.00 £2.71 £1.26 £0.42 £1.26
I £943.00 £2.11 £0.98 £0.32 £0.98
J £1,698.00 £5.87 £2.73 £0.90 £2.73
K £1,604.00 £5.08 £2.37 £0.78 £2.37