THE GUIDELINE HOURLY RATES: SEE THEM HERE: UPDATED FOR 2025 RATES

April 11, 2024 · by · in Assessment of Costs, Civil Procedure, Costs

The Guideline Hourly Rates changed on 1st January 2025. These are set out below.  The 2024 rates can be found underneath.

Guideline hourly rates 2025

Grade Fee earner London 1 London 2 London 3 National 1 National 2
A Solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience £566 £413 £312 £288 £282
B Solicitors and legal executives with over 4 years’ experience £385 £319 £256 £242 £242
C Other solicitors or legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience £299 £269 £204 £197 £196
D Trainee solicitors, paralegals and other fee earners £205 £153 £143 £139 £139

Guideline hourly rates 2024

Grade Fee earner London 1 London 2 London 3 National 1 National 2
A Solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience £546 £398 £301 £278 £272
B Solicitors and legal executives with over 4 years’ experience £371 £308 £247 £233 £233
C Other solicitors or legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience £288 £260 £197 £190 £189
D Trainee solicitors, paralegals and other fee earners £198 £148 £138 £134 £134

These are the guideline rates in effect from 1 January 2024. You can find the previous guideline rates that were in effect from 1 October 2021 to 31 December 2023.

London bands

London band Area Postcodes
London 1 Very heavy commercial and corporate work by centrally based London firms Not restricted to any particular London postcode
London 2 City and Central London EC1 to 4, W1, WC1, WC2 and SW1
London 3 Outer London All other London boroughs, plus Dartford and Gravesend
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