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Fees follow a reading of the papers. There is no published rate card.
One document, one opinion, or one hearing's preparation, scoped and quoted once the papers are read. A brief taken this way commits the chamber to nothing beyond that single piece of work.
Agreed capacity for chambers or firms sending work on a regular basis, tracked through the matter register. Capacity is agreed in advance, so a brief arriving in a busy week is not competing for a slot.
Support that follows one matter from opening to close, rather than being re-briefed at each stage, so context built at an interim stage is still there at final hearing.
A fee is quoted once the papers are read, set against the forum, the urgency, and the volume of the record, not against a fixed card. Per-assignment work is quoted per brief; a retainer is agreed for recurring volume; matter-linked engagement follows a matter from opening to close.
There is no published rate card because two briefs that carry the same name are rarely the same work. A bail application on a short chargesheet and one on a voluminous record with reliance on a special statute are both bail applications, and quoting them at the same figure means either overcharging on the first or renegotiating the second once it is already underway. Reading first avoids both.
What actually moves the figure is the volume of the record, the number of authorities genuinely in play, whether the forum carries procedural requirements of its own, whether the matter is already part-heard and how much of it has to be absorbed before anything can be drafted, the language the record is in, and how much time there is. A brief that arrives with the papers organised and the question clearly framed costs less to work than the same brief arriving as an undifferentiated bundle, and PrecedentIQ says so rather than pricing the difference in silently.
The quote is given before work starts, and it holds unless the scope changes. Where the instructing advocate changes the relief sought, adds a party, or the record turns out to be materially larger than what was sent, that is a new scope, and a revised figure is agreed before the work continues rather than presented afterwards as an overrun.
PrecedentIQ does not quote comparatively against what another bench or chamber would charge, and it makes no claim about being cheaper or faster than anyone else. The figure is set against the work in front of it.
Drafting, advisory opinions, case strategy and merits review, transactional and compliance work, and translation are each scoped and quoted on their own terms. See the relevant practice hub for what sits inside each brief.
Verification is not a separate line. Checking citations, statutory references and forum rules against the primary source is a standing stage in the process described in How We Work, so it is part of the brief as quoted rather than an option that can be declined to save money. The same applies to the internal review a draft passes before it reaches the instructing advocate.
Revisions of the kind contemplated in that process, where the instructing advocate reviews the draft and asks for changes within the scope agreed, are part of the brief. What is re-quoted is a change of scope, not a change of mind about wording.
Court fees, filing charges, costs of obtaining certified copies and any official record charges are the instructing advocate's, not PrecedentIQ's, since PrecedentIQ does not file and appears in no proceeding. Nothing of that kind is routed through or marked up by PrecedentIQ.
An advocate who wants a sense of the position before sending the full record can describe the matter, the forum and the stage it has reached through the Contact page. PrecedentIQ will say whether it is a brief the relevant hub takes, and what it needs to see in order to quote. It will not put a figure on a matter it has not read.