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Cost Administrator – Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department – Nottingham

Cost Administrator – Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department – Nottingham

Bhatia Best LimitedNottingham, England, United Kingdom
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
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Cost Administrator – Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department – Nottingham

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Cost Administrator – Nottingham

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Costs Administrator to work in our Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department. The successful candidate would be based at our Nottingham Office and would support our Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department.

Nottingham office – Public Law & Community Care Judicial Review Department

Full time – Monday – Friday, 9am – 5.30pm (office based)

Salary – Above market rate – subject to experience

Job Specification :

  • Assist with submitting Legal Aid bills via CCMS.
  • Assist with preparing Legal Help claims.
  • Assist with negotiating settlement with the paying party in Inter-Partes costs claims.
  • Fully conversant with CCMS and legal aid systems. Uploading documents onto CCMS in a timely manner as per LAA requests.
  • Dealing with any rejected claims and submitting appeals as necessary.
  • Awareness of and aptitude to meet Legal Aid KPI’s.
  • Ensuring compliance with Legal Aid rules and internal office policy.
  • Liaising with Counsel’s Chambers in order to obtain fee notes for billing purposes.
  • Allocating Counsel’s fees on CCMS.
  • Liaising with fee earners.
  • Undertaking other clerical and administrative duties as may be reasonably required from time to time.

Personal Specification :

  • Ability to work under pressure and process a high volume of claims accurately.
  • High level of numeracy and accuracy when dealing with figures.
  • Good oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a team environment and autonomously, proactively managing your own caseload.
  • Experience of using Case Management Systems.

    • Knowledge :

  • Knowledge and understanding of Legal Aid Agency rules relating to assessment and recovery of solicitors costs in publicly funded files (preferable).
  • Court rules for lodging bills (preferable).
  • Court costs assessment procedures (preferable).
  • Basic Accounting Principles (preferable).
  • Experience of Judicial Review work (preferable).

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