Leaders at the Bar have agreed an interim deal with the Ministry of Justice to end the fee impasse that has threatened to disrupt high value legal aid fraud trials, with discussions to reform the payment scheme for the most costly cases underway.
A joint statement issued by the Bar Council and the Government today (7 July) confirmed that ad hoc fixed-fee arrangements have been accepted by self-employed barristers to act on a number of specific ‘very high cost cases’ (VHCC), which barristers had previously collectively refused to act on under newly-reduced legal aid rates.
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