Section 47.18

Where the court is to assess costs of a LSC funded client , an assisted person or a person to whom legal aid is provided which are payable out of the Community Legal Services Fund or by the Lord Chancellor under Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, that person’s solicitor may commence detailed assessment proceedings by filing a request in the relevant practice form. A request under paragraph (1) must be filed within 3 months after the date when the right to detailed assessment arose. The solicitor must also serve a copy of the request for detailed assessment on the LSC funded client , the assisted person or the person to whom legal aid is provided, if notice of that person’s interest has been given to the court in accordance with community legal service or legal aid regulations. Where the solicitor has certified that the LSC funded client or that person wishes to attend an assessment hearing, the court will, on receipt of the request for assessment, fix a date for the assessment hearing. Where paragraph (3) does not apply, the court will, on receipt of the request for assessment provisionally assess the costs without the attendance of the solicitor, unless it considers that a hearing is necessary. After the court has provisionally assessed the bill, it will return the bill to the solicitor. The court will fix a date for an assessment hearing if the solicitor informs the court, within 14 days after receiving the provisionally assessed bill, that the solicitor wants the court to hold such a hearing.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-08-15