S.I. No. 305/1950:

CRIMINAL APPEAL (FEES AND EXPENSES OF LEGAL AID) REGULATIONS, 1950.

CRIMINAL APPEAL (FEES AND EXPENSES OF LEGAL AID) REGULATIONS, 1950.

The Minister for Finance, pursuant to the Criminal Appeal Rules, 1924, hereby makes the following regulations :--

1. These regulations may be cited as the Criminal Appeal (Fees and Expenses of Legal Aid) Regulations, 1950.

2. In these regulations--

the expression " Dublin solicitor " means a solicitor who is required, under the Stamp Act, 1891, to pay the stamp duty applicable to a solicitor who practises in the city of Dublin or within three miles therefrom ;

the expression " country solicitor " means a solicitor who is required, under the Stamp Act, 1891, to pay the stamp duty applicable to a solicitor who practises outside the limits referred to in the preceding paragraph of this Regulation.

3.--(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this Regulation the rates and scales of payment in respect of legal aid assigned to an appellant by the Court of Criminal Appeal pursuant to Rule 43 of the Criminal Appeal Rules, 1924, shall be as follows--

(a) to senior counsel--nine guineas on brief and six guineas in respect of each day on which the appeal continues beyond the first day ;

(b) to junior counsel--six guineas on brief and four guineas in respect of each day on which the appeal continues beyond the first day ;

(c) to a Dublin solicitor--four guineas on the assignment and two guineas in respect of each day on which the appeal continues beyond the first day ;

(d) to a country solicitor--six guineas on the assignment and three guineas in respect of each day on which the appeal continues beyond the first day together with, in respect of any occasion on which he has necessarily to travel to Dublin in connection with the appeal, such travelling expenses and subsistence allowance as are appropriate to a civil servant of the highest grade.

(2) Where, in the opinion of the Attorney General, a case is of special difficulty he may recommend a special fee for the sanction of the Minister for Finance.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 19th day of December, 1950.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT.