Sentences with phrase «fee schemes»

Also published this week are final fixed fee schemes for family and family mediation, mental health and police station work, together with changes to the funding code for child care proceedings.

The main fixed fee scheme which pays for most criminal defence advocacy was first introduced in 1997.

The committee agreed this research was «fundamental» to the decision on whether the new fee scheme went ahead.

The committee examined the likely impact of the new fee schemes.

We recognise, however, that levels of funding are different from the structure of any fixed fee scheme.

At the same time, the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) and the Legal Services Commission (LSC) published detailed plans for graduated fee schemes for civil and family legal aid for the transitional period between 2007 and 2009 (DCA, CP 13/06, July 2006).

Harmonisation of fees schemes into One Case One fee (OCOF) and the belief that fewer, larger suppliers offer better value could mean that the unique defining attributes of a quality specialist advocacy profession will be lost.

He «take [s] exception to the majority striking down the British Columbia hearing fee scheme on a novel reading of s. 96 and the rule of law» (par.

It criticised the government for not having «all the information required to assess the true impact on legal aid suppliers of the reform proposals, especially of the new fee schemes on the legal aid market.

The present fee scheme operated by the financial services ombudsman is not unfair or unreasonable.

The committee warned that «only appropriately graduated fee schemes which allowed adequate remuneration for more complex cases and those where attendance by, or communication with, a client is unusually difficult would encourage providers to devote the time needed to deal with such cases».

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although standard maintenance fees are not due with respect to SPCs, regulations are expected to detail a separate fee scheme regarding SPC filing etc..

The existing Fixed Recoverable Costs Scheme, with its combination of a core fee and a damages - based percentage fee is in part a recoverable contingency fee scheme.

The anticipated financial impact of the new or modified fee schemes for the transitional period before the introduction of competitive tendering in October 2008 and April 2009 indicated that they posed «a considerable risk to the stability of an already fragile legal aid market».

«Where the LSC [Legal Services Commission] embarks upon the creation of a comprehensive system of fixed and graduated fee schemes intended to provide a sustainable basis for the future of the legal aid market, fair to both the suppliers and the taxpayer, it can only do so meaningfully on the basis of adequate knowledge of the reasons for variations in case costs between firms, areas of the country and within each category of legal aid.

It suggested that a proper graduation of the police station case fee that took account of the number of attendances, or a time - related banding, as in the magistrates» courts standard fee scheme, would provide an adequate sharing of the economic risk of rises in defence practitioners» travel costs between the supplier and the government.

The committee said: «The short - term introduction of transitional fixed and graduated fee schemes at breakneck speed will not allow providers to make best use of what should be a transitional period in which firms can carry out carefully planned business restructuring, where potential for efficiency gains in restructuring exists at all.»

The modified family graduated fee scheme proposals of March 2007 only had regional differentiation for level 3 fees.

Mr Hunter was the bursar of Malvern College, which operated a concessionary fee scheme enabling members of staff to have their sons educated at the school at reduced fees if surplus places were available.

The Chief Justice decides «to declare the hearing fee scheme as it stands unconstitutional and leave it to the legislature or the Lieutenant Governor in Council to enact new provisions, should they choose to do so» (par.

The Legal Services Commission announced cuts to the family graduated fee scheme in February, and is proposing further cuts which will see payments cut by up to 55 %, according to the Bar Council.

The government claimed that the extension of the existing fixed and graduated fee schemes builds on 15 years of experience of these types of fees, as well as consultation, and detailed work carried out internally and externally.

Nonetheless, the LSC has been sensitive to the need to make transitional fixed fee schemes reflect local circumstances, though how far that is possible will vary with the particular scheme and the particular sector.»

The effectiveness of graduated fees schemes need not have deteriorated if regularly reviewed.

Several retailers are starting to use Litecoin due to its low fee scheme and fast transactions.

The immediate introduction of new fair graduated fee schemes for criminal litigators, family litigators and family advocates is overdue.

Looking at the matter generally, the company had failed to show that the present fee scheme was not one of the possible and rational responses to the need to finance the Ombudsman Service.

A new simplified version of the advocates» graduated fee scheme which will reduce barristers» fees by an average of 6 % - this will be reviewed after 1 year;

Most importantly, Justice Rothstein is right to point out that the majority's pronouncements on the role that exemptions from fees can play in a constitutional hearing fees scheme are contradictory.

«Given the current fragility of the legal aid supplier base and the time suppliers will need to restructure their businesses where necessary, the introduction of ill - thought out new fee schemes, which are predicted to result in significant reductions in income for a considerable number of suppliers for little more than one to three years» time prior to competitive tendering, poses a great risk for suppliers and clients alike.

Equally, there was a danger that fixed fee schemes would bring to an end effective informal local referral practices between specialist and non-specialist firms.

One of the generally acknowledged success stories of public procurement policy of recent years was an idea that originated from the Bar itself some dozen years ago or so: graduated fees schemes for barristers.

During 2015/16 a total # 341m was paid out under the litigator graduated fee scheme, but the MoJ plans to cut expenditure to around # 292m, a return to 2013/14 levels.

The Bar has rallied in support of its criminal law colleagues, as more sets join the action against fee cuts imposed by changes to the advocates» graduated fee scheme (AGFS).

Criminal legal aid: the Ministry of Justice is consulting on reform to the two fee schemes for criminal legal aid, the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS) and the Litigators» Graduated Fee Scheme (LGFS).

§ pay litigators in all cases with an estimated trial length of up to 60 days at the rates in the Litigators» Graduated Fee scheme, rather than at Very High Cost Case rates.

Over at the Bar, more than 80 chambers have now pledged support for the ongoing action being taken by criminal barristers in protest at the advocates» graduated fee scheme (AGFS).

The Ministry of Justice's consultation on reform to the two fee schemes for criminal legal aid (the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS) and the Litigators» Graduated Fee Scheme (LGFS)-RRB- closed in March.

Which bit of «The introduction of these fee schemes for the short transitional period should therefore be halted» [in the committee report] did they mistake for an endorsement?»

The litigator graduated fee scheme is pencilled in for introduction at the same time, subject to the outcome of a consultation, and the unified contract for criminal legal aid services is planned for July 2008.

«What they've done to legal aid for solicitors is far worse than what they've done to the Bar,» he adds, pointing to the recent cuts to the litigators» graduated fee scheme, which cut the fees for the bigger cases on which firms had relied to make their money by 40 per cent.

It is unlikely that these fee schemes would halt the trend of family lawyers leaving the legal aid system, let alone reverse it.»

It appears that the LSC has inadequate information on which to base its proposed fixed and graduated fee schemes.»

The introduction of these fee schemes for the short transitional period should therefore be halted.»

Regarding waiting time, there were compelling considerations against their inclusion in the fixed and graduated fee schemes:

The indigency exemption was insufficient in that regard and could not save the fee scheme.