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Can I claim a separate fixed payment or submit an account for a bail appeal after the client has been convicted but before sentence?

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Can I claim a separate fixed payment or submit an account for a bail appeal after the client has been convicted but before sentence?

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Neither. The fixed payment only applies to bail appeals under section 32 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. A bail appeal in such circumstances (under section 201 of the 1995 Act) is subsumed within the core fixed payment already available.