Legal Aid Criminal Crown Court - Creating a New Time Entry

12/02/2025
Knowledge

How To

To record a New Time/Fee Entry onto a Crown Court legal aid matter, complete the following steps.

Open your LEAP Matter.
Click on the Time & Fees tab.
Select New Billable Items.
Enter the correct Date.
Select the Billing Stage of the Time/Fee Entry from the drop-down list.
Select the appropriate Activity Rate of the type of Time/Fee entry.
Select the relevant Activity.
Enter a Billing Description and number of Units.
To record multiple items, click New Line and repeat steps 7 and 8.

Click to edit heading

Certain activities that you select will require additional information to be entered, such as the type of disbursement and reason. (Just as you would record them in the portal).
Once all items have been entered click Save & Close.

Click to edit heading

If you have previously recorded time, fee, or cost recovery items onto the matter the billing stage and activity rate will auto-complete when this form is opened.