LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 339 Persons to be notified of application

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 339

339 Persons to be notified of application

(1) The applicant for a costs assessment must, under the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules , give notice of the costs application to any other person the applicant knows is 1 of the following—

(a) a law practice to whom the legal costs have been paid or are payable;

(b) the law practice that retained a law practice to whom the legal costs have been paid or are payable;

(c) the client;

(d) a third party payer.

(2) A person given notice of the costs application under subsection (1) —

(a) is entitled to participate in the costs assessment process; and

(b) is taken to be a party to the assessment; and

(c) if the costs assessor so decides, is bound by the assessment.