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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 173 Definitions

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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 173

Definitions

173 Definitions

(1) In this Part:

"bill of costs" means a bill of costs for providing legal services, and includes a memorandum of fees.

"conditional costs agreement" means an agreement of the kind referred to in section 186.

"costs" --see section 3.
Note: "Costs" includes barristers' and solicitors' fees as well as other items that may be charged by barristers and solicitors (such as expenses and disbursements).
"costs agreement" means an agreement referred to in section 184 as to costs for the provision of legal services.

"costs assessor" means a person appointed as a costs assessor under Division 6.

"legal services" means work done, or business transacted, in the capacity of a barrister or solicitor.
(2) In this Part, a reference to a "barrister" or to a "solicitor" includes:
(a) a person who was a barrister or solicitor when the legal services concerned were provided, or
(b) the assignee of a barrister or solicitor, or
(c) the executor of the will or other testamentary instrument of a barrister or solicitor, or
(d) the trustee or administrator of the estate of a barrister or solicitor, or
(e) in the case of a solicitor, the receiver of the solicitor's property appointed under Part 8.
(3) In this Part, a reference to the costs of a costs assessor or the costs incurred by a costs assessor includes a reference to the costs related to the remuneration of a costs assessor.