Legal Profession Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part 7
49. Form of bill of costs for contentious business
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where the remuneration of an advocate and solicitor in respect of contentious business done by him is not the subject of a contentious business agreement, then, subject to subsections (2) to (4), the advocate and solicitor’s bill of costs may at the option of the advocate and solicitor be either a bill containing detailed items or a gross sum bill.
advocate and solicitor
“advocate and solicitor” means an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court;
The party chargeable with a gross sum bill may at any time —
before he is served with a writ or other originating process for the recovery of costs included in the bill; and
before the expiration of 3 months from the date on which the bill was delivered to him, require the advocate and solicitor to deliver, in lieu of that bill, a bill containing detailed items. On such a requirement being made the gross sum shall be of no effect.
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Where an action is commenced on a gross sum bill, the court shall, if so requested by the party chargeable with the bill before the expiration of one month from the service on that party of the writ or other originating process, order that the bill be taxed.
If a gross sum bill is taxed, whether under this section or otherwise, nothing in this section shall prejudice any rules of court with respect to taxation. The advocate and solicitor shall furnish the taxing officer with such details of any of the costs covered by the bill as the taxing officer may require.
Terms defined in s 2
advocate and solicitor
Defined · s 2“advocate and solicitor” means an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court;
contentious business
Defined · s 2“contentious business” means business done as an advocate and solicitor in or for the purposes of proceedings begun before a court of justice or before an arbitrator;
contentious business agreement
Defined · s 2“contentious business agreement” means an agreement made in pursuance of section 44;