10 - Medico-legal fees
Paid by the Crown Prosecution Service
Effective date: 1 April 2007
Mileage (by agreement with the BMA) 45.0p per mile or 25.4p per mile for motorcycles.
Notes:
- The CPS normally pays mileage at the public transport rate of 25.0p per mile or 23.8p per mile for motorcycles.
- Where a passenger whose travelling expenses would otherwise have been paid is carried, the mileage rate shall be increased by 2 pence for the first passenger and by 1 pence for each additional passenger.
a) Subsistence expenses: £
- up to 5 hours 2.40
- up to 10 hours 4.75
- in excess of 10 hours 10.35
- overnight stay (inner London) 100.70
- overnight stay (elsewhere) 69.20
b) Loss of earnings:
- up to 4 hours' absence 32.95
- in excess of 4 hours' absence 65.60
c) - Financial loss allowance in respect of expenditure incurred 65.60
2. Professional witness allowances
a) Subsistence for overnight stay: £
- inner London (within 5 miles of Charing Cross) 94.05
- elsewhere 60.95
Either:
b) Attendance allowance
- less than 2 hours' absence from practice 88.50
- less than 4 hours' absence from practice 124.00
- less than 6 hours’ absence from practice 184.45
- Over 6 hours 248.00
Or:
c) Locum allowance
- for a period not exceeding 2 hours 94.35
- for a period not exceeding 4 hours, subject to the point below 132.50
- for a period not exceeding 4 hours but where it was not practicable to provide a locum for less than 4 hours 265.00
- for a period exceeding 4 hours 265.00
3. Expert witness – guidance issued by CPS Headquarters
Expert witness fees are not fixed; the fee is negotiated for each attendance. Expert witnesses should contact the CPS Area Office for advice.