The Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/566
• Sections: 21

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Criminal Legal Aid (Scotland) (Fees) Regulations 1989 .

Section 2 Amendment of principal Regulations

In the provisions of the principal Regulations listed in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, for the amounts of the fees specified in those provisions and set out opposite in column 2 of Schedule 1, there shall be substituted the amounts specified opposite in column 3 of that Schedule.

Section 3 Amendment of principal Regulations

For Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Section 4 Amendment of principal Regulations

For the Table of Fees set out in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (Fees of Counsel) there shall be substituted the Table of Fees set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Section 5 Amendment of principal Regulations

In regulation 10(2) of the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted at the end the word “thereon”.

Section 6 Amendment of principal Regulations

The amendments to the principal Regulations made by regulations 2, 3 and 4 of these Regulations shall apply only to fees in relation to proceedings concluded on or after 1st April 1991.

Section 6 Interpretation

In this Schedule—

“court” means the High Court, the sheriff court or the district court as the case may be; and

a “sheet” shall consist of 250 words or numbers;

a “page” shall consist of 125 words or numbers; and

“exceptional” means the production of more than 20 output copy sheets (whether 20 of 1 sheet, 5 of 4 sheets or whatever) when a document has been copied.

Section 1

Trial per day

(a) In Edinburgh

Section 1

Trial per day

Section 2

Appeals, etc

(a) Drafting grounds of appeal against conviction, including any note of appeal

Section 2

Appeals, etc

Section 3

Consultations

(a) In Edinburgh

Section 3

Consultations

(a) In Edinburgh

Section 4

Opinion on appeal, etc

Section 4

Opinion on appeal

Section 5

Revisal of stated case

Section 5

Revisal of stated case

Section 6

Drafting bill of suspension

Section 6

Revisal of bill of suspension

Section 7

Remits for sentence and pleas in mitigation

Section 7

Remits for sentence and pleas in mitigation