Court of Protection deputy fixed costs calculator (PD 19B)
calculate_court_of_protection_fixed_costsWorks out the fixed costs a professional or public authority deputy may take from P's estate under Court of Protection Practice Direction 19B (the 2024 version, and the December 2017 version for periods ending before 1 April 2024), fee by fee: the deputy application, the annual management fees for property and affairs (the net-assets percentage below £20,300) and health and welfare, reports to the OPG, tax returns, trustee and PD 9D applications, property management, conveyancing and travel, with part years and VAT. Where the deputy takes detailed assessment instead, it gives the SCCO fee, the 75% cap on payments on account and the time limit, never an estimate of what an assessment would allow. Every figure is a maximum. DMD Costs does not act in Court of Protection matters.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
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| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| wip | No | Assessment: work in progress for the management year (your figure), in pounds (e.g. "12500.50"). | |
| elect | No | Where order is "assessment": "assessment" (take it, as the order provides) or "fixed" (elect fixed costs instead, para 5). | |
| filed | No | Assessment: the date the request (Form N258B) is filed, for the court fee. | |
| items | No | The fees to work out, one entry each (up to 20). | |
| order | Yes | What the order provides for the deputy's costs: "fixed" (fixed costs), "assessment" (detailed assessment by the SCCO), "inter-partes" (costs paid by another party, not out of P's estate). | |
| deputy | Yes | Who the deputy is: "solicitor" (a solicitor, an SRA-regulated trust corporation or a chartered legal executive), "other-solicitor-rates" (another professional deputy whose order authorises solicitors' rates), "public-authority" (an office holder of a public authority), "other-pa-rates" (another professional deputy on public authority rates, or whose order says fixed costs without saying which), "lay" (a lay deputy, such as a family member). | |
| estimate | No | Assessment: the estimate given to the OPG (your figure), in pounds (e.g. "12500.50"). | |
| notForProfit | No | "other-pa-rates": a not-for-profit deputy, for the fixed travel rate. | |
| vatRegistered | No | A deputy who is not a solicitor or a public authority is VAT registered. |