Subjects:

Criminal Law

Contents:

Overview of contracting

The contracting framework: General criminal contract

individual case contracts

Advice and assistance pre-charge

Advice at the police station

Duty solicitor schemes

Advice post charge

Advocacy assistance

Representation

VHCC - individual case contracts

Management standards

Appendix: General criminal contract

Due June 2008
The new General Criminal Contract restructures criminal work and introduces new claiming rules, both of which will affect remuneration. This book provides an essential reference on the workings of the new scheme and related areas of publicly funded work such as prison law, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and Administrative Court work.

Each section will begin with an overview of each funding area with a detailed and referenced explanation of what can and cannot be claimed and how to comply with the new requirements. The book is comprehensively cross referenced to costs assessment guidance and key court decisions