With effect from 2 May 2023

This document sets out the approach taken by the Crown Prosecution Service to paying Graduated Fee Scheme (GFS) F cases where a Crown Advocate (CA) returns a brief to an external advocate at the Bar or an external advocate at the Bar returns a brief to a CA.

This document provides a step-by-step guide to the processing of graduated fees and the appeal procedure.

Table 1: Fees for confiscation proceedings with 50 pages or less and fees for second and subsequent days in all confiscation hearings 

Table of Ancillary Fixed Fees

Tables of Fees: Effective Trial and Cracked Trial Main Hearings, Guilty Plea Main Hearings, Trial Daily (refresher) Fees (TDF) and Cracked Trial Daily Fees (CDF).

Table of offences in Class order

N.B. this list does not specify the Act and must therefore be cross-referenced with Graduated Fee Scheme F Annex 2 - Table of Offences - Class Order

This Fees Bulletin outlines changes to the CPS fee arrangements relating to Unduly Lenient Sentence referrals, which will come into effect on 2 May 2023.

This fees bulletin outlines the CPS fee arrangements in respect of magistrates’ court and the Youth Court work undertaken by external advocates on or after 2 May 2023.