{"id":1021,"date":"2011-09-04T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2011-09-04T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T12:00:50","slug":"cls-funding-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/2011\/09\/cls-funding-order\/","title":{"rendered":"CLS Funding Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2011 has been made, implementing the 10% fee cuts from 3 October 2011. A copy of the Order with the revised fee schedules can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MoJ-response-+-CLS-Funding-Order-18.8.11.pdf\">downloaded here<\/a> [pdf].<\/p>\n<p>The Order affects new Legal Helps and certificates from 3 October 2011. Existing matters remain on the old fee rates.<\/p>\n<p>The draft Order contained a proposal to limit surveyor\/EHO expert fees to \u00a3225 for a report. This would have made it impossible to run disrepair claims or counterclaims on legal aid. After vigorous lobbying, not least by HLPA, this has been removed. Instead surveyor\/EHO fees are limited to \u00a350 per hour, with no set fee for a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2011 has been made, implementing the 10% fee cuts from 3 October 2011. A copy of the Order with the revised fee schedules can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/MoJ-response-+-CLS-Funding-Order-18.8.11.pdf\">downloaded here<\/a> [pdf].<\/p>\n<p>The Order affects new Legal Helps and certificates from 3 October 2011. Existing matters remain on the old fee rates.<\/p>\n<p>The draft Order contained a proposal to limit surveyor\/EHO expert fees to \u00a3225 for a report. This would have made it impossible to run disrepair claims or counterclaims on legal aid. After vigorous lobbying, not least by HLPA, this has been removed. Instead surveyor\/EHO <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/2011\/09\/cls-funding-order\/\">[... read more]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hlpa.org.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}