Revised Guideline Hourly Rates 2025 - written by Wayne Spring - 01/01/2025

The HM Courts & Tribunal Service published on 1 January 2025 the new Guideline Hourly Rates.  These follow the recommendations that the GHR would be reviewed.  These updated rates are adopted as part of the continued costs reforms sweeping across the England & Wales legal system.

 

To ensure that your lay clients are aware of these rate increases practitioners must ensure that they inform their lay client’s as soon as possible.  Practitioners are encouraged to consider these rates every year as Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Chair of the Civil Justice Council and Head of Civil Justice has confirmed that he would welcome an annual increase when publishing the 2024 GHR.

 

 

 

London 1

London 2

London 3

National 1

National 2

Grade A

Solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience  

£566
£546
(£512)

£413
£398
(£373)

£312
£301
(£282)

£288
£278
(£261)

£282
£272
(£255)

Grade B

Solicitors and legal executives with over 4 years’ experience  

£385
£371
(£348)

£319
£308
(£289)

£256
£247
(£232)

£242
£233
(£218)

£242
£233
(£218)

Grade C

Other solicitors or legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience  

£299
£288
(£270)

£269
£260
(£244)

£204
£197
(£185)

£197
£190
(£178)

£196
£189
(£177)

Grade D

Trainee solicitors, paralegals and other fee earners  

£205
£198
(£186)

£153
£148
(£139)

£143
£138
(£129)

£139
£134
(£126)

£139
£134
(£126)

 

Band

Area

Postcodes

London 1

(very heavy commercial and corporate work by centrally based London firms) - This is not restricted to any particular London postcode

 

London 2

City & Central London – other work

EC1-EC4, W1, WC1, WC2 and SW1

London 3

Outer London

All other London Boroughs, plus Dartford & Gravesend

National 1

The counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire (& Isle of Wight), Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, East Sussex, West Sussex, Suffolk, Surrey and Wiltshire.  Birkenhead, Birmingham Inner, Bristol, Cambridge City, Cardiff Inner, Leeds Inner (within 2km of City Art Gallery), Liverpool, Manchester Central, Newcastle City Centre (within 2m of St Nicholas Cathedral), Norwich City and Nottingham City.

National 2

All places not included in London 1-3 and National 1

 

 

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By Wayne Spring 

National Training & Development Manager, Chartered Fellow of the Institute of the Legal Executives

 

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