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LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2002 - REG 53 Form of, and fee for, application for assessment of bill of costs

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL PROFESSION REGULATION 2002 - REG 53

Form of, and fee for, application for assessment of bill of costs

53 Form of, and fee for, application for assessment of bill of costs

(1) For the purposes of section 203 (1) of the Act, an application for assessment (other than an application for assessment of party/party costs under section 202 of the Act) by the client is to be made in the approved form.
(1A) For the purposes of section 203 (1) of the Act, an application for assessment (other than an application for assessment of party/party costs under section 202 of the Act) by a person other than the client is to be made in the approved form.
(1B) The application is to be made to the Manager, Costs Assessment in triplicate.
(2) For the purposes of section 203 (1) of the Act, the prescribed fee that is to accompany such an application is the greatest of the following amounts:
(a) $100,
(b) 1 per cent of the amount remaining unpaid on the bill of costs at the time the application is made,
(c) 1 per cent of the amount of costs in dispute at the time the application is made.
(3) For the purposes of this clause, the amount of costs in dispute is the total amount of costs for those legal services in respect of which the costs claimed are disputed by the person liable to pay them.