Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

AMENDMENTS
TO BE MOVED
ON REPORT
[Supplementary to the Second Marshalled List]

Clause 43

LORD MCNALLY

135A*

Page 30, line 30, leave out from “not” to end of line 32 and insert “prevent a costs order including provision in relation to a success fee payable by a person (“P”) under a conditional fee agreement entered into before the day on which that subsection comes into force (“the commencement day”) if—

(a) the agreement was entered into specifically for the purposes of the provision to P of advocacy or litigation services in connection with the matter that is the subject of the proceedings in which the costs order is made, or

(b) advocacy or litigation services were provided to P under the agreement in connection with that matter before the commencement day.”

Clause 46

LORD MCNALLY

141A*

Page 32, line 44, leave out “party to proceedings” and insert “person”

141B*

Page 32, line 45, leave out from beginning to “before”

141C*

Page 32, line 46, at end insert “if the undertaking was given specifically in respect of the costs of other parties to proceedings relating to the matter which is the subject of the proceedings in which the costs order is made”

Prepared 7th March 2012