31 August Legal Aid News [pdf, 547 KB]
...claimable for considering specified reports and reporting to the client on them. A Judge directed Lawyer for Child report is specified as a specialist report under both the COCA and the CYP Act schedules. The COCA schedule also specifies reports requested by the court under sections 132 or 133 of COCA while the CYP Act schedule specifies reports requested by the court under sections 178, 186 or 187 of the CYP Act. On occasion, we receive claims for the specialist reports fee for rep...