Travel

Notice

The Legal Aid and Advice and Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) (No.2) Regulations 2023 came into force on 29 April 2023.
This Guidance item was not affected but a copy has been placed with related guidance in the archive section for the regulations in force prior to 29 April 2023.

Archive Version

The fee element of travel incurred in a case is subsumed within the various fixed payments, as is the case with all other fees.

The cost of travel, whether mileage if using a car or the cost of train ticket, is not chargeable where:

  • the travel is incurred in connection with taking a precognition, itself a fee, or
  • the travel is to a court in the town or place where you have a place of business, in terms of the criminal fees regulations, which apply

The rules are identical whether you are providing criminal legal aid or fixed payments ABWOR.

Otherwise, the cost of travel is separately chargeable whether mileage or cost incurred as an outlay.

The drug court
Subsumption of fees and outlays under advice and assistance (and ABWOR)

In this section

Fixed payments allowable in a case

The structure of fixed payments

Find out which regulations cover the different fixed payments and any add ons in criminal legal aid accounts.

Fixed payments allowable in a case

First and second deferred sentence 

Learn about a first or second deferred sentence being subsumed by a fixed payment.

Fixed payments allowable in a case

Schedule 1 fee (the legal aid core fixed payment)

Find the fixed payments for JP, sheriff and rural courts; what is covered; breach of bail; a court grant; and the under 21 supplement

Fixed payments allowable in a case

Schedule 1A fee (the legal aid core fixed payment in the sheriff court where the case does not proceed to trial beyond the first 30 minutes)

Find out about the case disposal fee in the sheriff court and the work this covers.

Fixed payments allowable in a case

Schedule 1B fee (the ABWOR core fixed payment in the JP and Sheriff court)

Find out what the ABWOR core fixed payment is in the Justice of the Peace and sheriff court and what work this covers.

Fixed payments allowable in a case

Section 174(1) appeal

Find out how to charge for appeals under section 174(1) of the 1995 Act in the High Court in addition to other fixed payments.

Fixed payments allowable in a case

Post-conviction hearings under ABWOR

Find out the payment arrangements for post-conviction hearings under the 1995 Act.

Fixed payments allowable in a case

The drug court

Find out the fixed payments available if your client is referred to the drug court.

Fixed payments allowable in a case

Subsumption of fees and outlays under advice and assistance (and ABWOR)

Learn about fees and outlays incurred under A&A (or ABWOR) being subsumed within any fixed payment ABWOR or criminal legal aid.