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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 197 Regulations to provide for amounts of costs passed on to other parties

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 1987 - SECT 197

Regulations to provide for amounts of costs passed on to other parties

197 Regulations to provide for amounts of costs passed on to other parties

(1) This section applies to a legal service of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.
(2) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to fixing the fair and reasonable cost for any such legal service provided by a barrister or solicitor.
(3) A barrister or solicitor is not entitled to recover for any such legal service an amount that exceeds the fair and reasonable cost so fixed if:
(a) liability to pay the cost of the legal service has been passed on by the client of the barrister or solicitor to a person who is not entitled to apply for an assessment of the cost under this Part, and
(b) the barrister or solicitor is seeking to recover the cost from that person.