«Subject to the outcome of this consultation the Lord Chancellor is minded to not reinstate
the second fee cut, which was suspended for 12 months last April, while targeted and modernising fee reforms are taken forward.
A MoJ spokesperson said this week: «The Lord Chancellor has confirmed he will not reinstate
the second fee cut for all defence litigation work that was suspended in April 2016.
Not exact matches
Cutting settlement times from hours and days to just three
seconds or less will remove billions of dollars in unnecessary intermediary
fees,» said Alastair Constance, CEO and founder of Mercury FX.
Cutting settlement times from hours and days to just three
seconds or less will remove billions of dollars in unnecessary intermediary
fees.»
In a classic case of divide and rule, the government recently chose not to slash
fees for Crown Court advocacy, while at the same time imposing a
second tranche of 8.75 %
cuts on solicitors» criminal legal aid
fees.
Twenty power companies including Germany's biggest utilities, EON SE and RWE AG, now get
fees for pledging to add or
cut electricity within
seconds to keep the power system stable, double the number in September, according to data from the nation's four grid operators.
Litigator Graduated
Fee Scheme cracked trials are being reduced by 25 % and Advocates Graduated
Fee Scheme (AGFS) achieve the same reduction through aligning PPE (the number of pages of prosecution evidence) rates in
second and final third cracked trials and
cutting by 11 %;
The Law Society Gazette reported that the Lord Chancellor is willing to drop the
second 8.75 %
fee cut for criminal legal aid — with strings.
In June 2015, the Ministry of Justice announced the
second 8.75 %
fee cut would take effect in July.
In summary, YLAL is opposed to all three of the proposals contained or referred to within the consultation: the potential reintroduction of the suspended
second 8.75 %
cut, the reduction of the Pages of Prosecution Evidence (PPE) limit and the
cut to
fees for court appointed advocates.
Meanwhile, discussions about the future of criminal legal aid continued following the government's decision to abandon two tier contracts and suspend the
second 8.75 %
fee cut.
Criminal defence firms are once again considering industrial action over a MoJ consultation that threatens a
second 8.75 %
fee cut.
The
second side to this is that Apple appears to be freezing out developers who build third - party applications that interact with SkyDrive, as the Microsoft service isn't paying a
cut of its
fees to Apple.
Cutting settlement times from hours and days to just three
seconds or less will remove billions of dollars in unnecessary intermediary
fees.»