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Millennium Accounts V5.83

Millennium Accounts Version 5.83 is available for download.

Click below to download a PDF document describing the following Legal Aid V5.83 changes, and providing important instructions for changing Millennium to use the latest V12 Activity Structures:-

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LEGAL AID CHANGES FOR OCTOBER 2011

Note: Some of the following information has been supplied by the LSC and is accurate at the time of inclusion. Please refer to the LSC website for the most up to date information.

LSC Online

These changes will be introduced into CWA for the 1st of November 2011. The first submission to be affected by the changes will be the October submission (covering cases closed up to the end of October) which is made in CWA from the 1st to the 20th of November. Please note that some changes will be triggered and controlled by case start date so even though the changes will be implemented into the system from the 1st of November cases may not be affected by the new rules until a later date.

Millennium general changes:

New Activity Structure (v12) - to take into account the new (lower) hourly rates involved in Legal Aid work especially Family Advocacy Scheme (FAS), see below.
Please check and make any necessary additions/changes you require (i.e. any that may have been added to v11) BEFORE upgrading to v12.

Reporting

CLS Claim 1 Form report - to cater for changes made by the LSC for October 2011 (version 14): this includes clause text changes on pages 1 and 2, and a new ‘grand total’ value (net + VAT) in the ‘Your Claim and VAT’ section on page 7, for more information see CLS Claim 1 Form in the Millennium product help.
Note: Time entries need to have an Activity Detail Code selected in order for the entries to appear on the Report/CLS Claim 1 Form Schedule of Time Spent section.

Bulkload Report has been enhanced to contain the new Criminal fields required by the LSC - see below for details.

The list of LSC Expert Types has been enhanced, see Bill Posting - Bill Disbursements in the Millennium product help for details.

Civil and Criminal matters

LSC: The key reporting changes being introduced for October 2011 for submissions starting on 1st to 20th November 2011 are as follows:

(note: those items listed below marked with * is where Millennium Accounts has not been changed but the LSC validation has changed)

• There is a new entry in the Activities Structure/Chart of Accounts, Normal v12, to take into account the new, reduced, LSC rates applicable from 3/10/2011. Please ensure manual changes are made here to match any/all entries being used in Normal v11.
• Civil Fees are being reduced by 10% as from 3rd October 2011, but the fee schemes are unchanged and the exceptional thresholds remains at 3 times the fee.
• Magistrates’ court fees will no longer be eligible for London / Non-London rates i.e. for cases where the Magistrates Representation Order Date is >= 3/10/2011.Input of a Representation Order Date with date on or after 3rd October 2011 means the appropriate Magistrates Category selection will be the from the post-LAR (Legal Aid Reform:LSC term) eg ‘Rural cat 1 LSF (summary Only)’ or ‘Urban cat 1 LSF (Either Way)’ or Urban cat 3 HSF’ etc, the fee has been appended to the text shown in order to aid selection. These apply to Non-Designated Fee types PROE, PROF and PROJ and Designated Fee types PROK and PROL claims.Claims with no Representation Order Date or with a date prior to 3rd October 2011 means that the relevant categories from pre-LAR (existing) price list will be offered for selection i.e. eg ‘Rural cat 1 LSF’ or ‘Urban cat 2 LSF’ or ‘London cat 3 HSF’ etc.The Representation Order Date and its associated Standard Fee Category will be added to the Bulkload November 2011 onwards submissions - see below for details.
• Housing Scheme outcome codes HPPO, HPCO and HPWA attract fees of £75.60 for London and £71.55 for non-London Courts from 3rd October 2011 (i.e lower values).
• Crime Lower - Associated CLS work claims – As from 3rd October 2011 reduced fees are claimable for codes: ASMS and ASPL. These have Fixed Fees and fixed Exceptional Thresholds applicable at the work started date (or open date if no work started date present):ASMS: if after 1/7/2008 the Fee is £88 and the Exceptional threshold is £264.
  OR if after 1/10/2007 the Fee is £86 and the Exceptional threshold is £258.
  OR if after 3/10/2011 the Fee is £79 and the Exceptional threshold is £237.

  ASPL: if after 1/7/2008 the Fee is £288 and the Exceptional threshold is £864.
  OR if after 1/10/2007 the Fee is £282 and the Exceptional threshold is £846.
  OR if after 3/10/2011 the Fee is £259 and the Exceptional threshold is £777.

• Procurement Area/Access Point changes include new codes:
  Unified Tolerance ‘PA10001′ and ‘AP10001′ for HOUsing, DEBt, WELfare, COMmunity care, EMPloyment, PERsonal ijury and ConsumerGeneralContract and MIScellaneous
  need to be selected although they will be counted as ‘PA00001′ for the purposes of the Consolidated New Matter Starts reporting. See Civil Bill Posting for details.
  For the TFF Fee Scheme, providers with 2010 Standard Civil Contracts (for HOUsing) will NEED to use Unified Contract ‘PA10000′ and Unified Contract ‘AP10000′ so that the original fee can be claimed, rather than the lower one effective from 3rd October 2011.
  NOTE: New lower fees for all other TFF work apply from 3rd October 2011.
• New fields are being introduced for October 2011 submissions (completed in CWA on or before 20th November 2011) to the LSC Bulk load report:
  Criminal: Representation Order Date, Standard Fee Category.

We are dedicated to making sure our product keeps pace with the requirements for Legal Aid practitioners, you can help by giving us your views and feedback.

For more information, release notes and downloads of the latest Millennium Accounts software go to our website Software Releases page.

Sincerely
OPSIS Support Team

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