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Recommendations |
Rules Affected |
Amendment Rules |
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Section 17: |
Interlocutory Applications Recommendations 88, 89 and 92 |
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59. |
Recommendation 88 The court should, whenever appropriate (whether as a response to an unwarranted application or unwarranted resistance to an application, with a view to saving costs; or otherwise), make a summary assessment of costs when disposing of interlocutory applications.
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RHC Order 62
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Rules 108-110
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60. |
Recommendation 89 Rules and practice directions along the lines indicated in this section of the Final Report should be adopted to regulate the making and implementation of orders for the summary assessments of costs.
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61. |
Recommendation 92 dges and masters should be empowered to make provisional summary assessments of costs, whereby the assessed sum must promptly be paid but allowing either party, at the end of the main proceedings, to insist on a taxation of the relevant costs with a view to adjusting the quantum of the payment made, but with the party who insists on such a taxation being at risk as to a special order for the costs of the taxation and other possible sanctions in the event that the taxation does not result in a proportionate benefit to him.
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