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Clause 6—(Solicitors And Counsel)

Volume 465: debated on Tuesday 31 May 1949

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9.50 p.m.

I beg to move, in page 7, line 43, after "aid," to insert:

"or of an agreement as to expenses in favour of such a person which provides for taxation."
This Amendment is similar to a previous one, with the same explanation. We have provided in subsection (7) that the provisions of subsection (5), which restricts the fees of counsel and solicitors to 85 per cent., will not affect the sums recoverable by virtue of an award of expenses in favour of the person receiving legal aid, but once again it may be that there is an extra-judicial settlement whereby a person will get so much by way of principal sum and so much by way of expenses attached, and we want to bring that type of case into the ambit of the scheme, as we did previously.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: In page 7, line 44, after "award," insert "or agreement."—[ The Lord Advocate.]