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Criminal legal aid processing: applications and digital systems

Use digital systems to simplify criminal legal aid processing: find forms for LAA criminal legal aid applications and eForms information.

From:
Legal Aid Agency
Published
18 August 2014
Last updated
15 September 2017 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Crown Court Defence FAQ

PDF, 592 KB, 7 pages

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Claim for Crown Court Defence user guide

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Details

Crime billing online and claims for Crown Court Defence

What is Crime Billing Online?

The Crime Billing Online (CBO) project is part of LAA Crime Change Programme – our aim is to modernise the processing of criminal legal aid. In partnership with MOJ Digital Services, CBO project has developed an online billing application, claims for Crown Court Defence (CCD).

The CBO project’s goals are to enable all advocates, litigators and support staff to submit all Advocate Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS) and Litigator Graduated Fee Scheme (LGFS) bills online.

What is happening now?

The CCD application, now allows all AGFS and LGFS bills to be submitted directly to LAA electronically.

CCD has been piloted amongst a group of barristers’ chambers and solicitors’ firms since October 2015 and has been rolled out nationally since January 2016. CCD is now available nationwide under both the Advocates’ and Litigators’ Fee Schemes as of 15 August 2016.

For further information on how to gain access to the billing application, please refer to the CCD FAQs at the top of the page or please contact the project team at crowncourtdefence@justice.gov.uk

What are the benefits of CCD?

Benefits for advocates and support staff include:

  • Submit AGFS and LGFS bills (including evidence submission) directly to LAA online
  • Immediate bills submission; eradicating postal delays
  • Reduced postage and printing costs
  • Online messaging and instant notifications from the processing teams
  • No need for a ‘wet’ signature

Updates to this page

Published 18 August 2014
Last updated 15 September 2017 show all updates

  1. Crown Court Defence FAQ updated.

  2. CCD userguide published.

  3. FAQ's updated.

  4. Crime billing online information updated.

  5. Crime billing online information added.

  6. New document added

  7. First published.

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