Legal Aid cases: Duty to inform counsel

It is the duty of the legally aided party’s legal representative to notify counsel in writing within 7 days after the detailed or provisional assessment where the fees claimed on his behalf have been reduced or disallowed on assessment and the legal representative must endorse the bill with the date on which such notice was given or that no such notice is necessary. If the bill is endorsed with the date upon which notice was given to counsel the court may not issue the certificate until 14 days have elapsed from the date so endorsed (see Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989, Regulation 112 and Precedent F(4) of the Schedule of Costs Precedents (see Appendix F).