Legal Profession Act · 2022 Revised Edition · Part 7
59. Magistrates
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The remuneration of an advocate and solicitor in respect of contentious business done by him in a Court of a Magistrate shall be regulated in accordance with sections 44 to 58, and for that purpose those sections shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this section.
advocate and solicitor
“advocate and solicitor” means an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court;
The Registrar of the Subordinate Courts shall be the taxing officer of a Court of a Magistrate but any taxation of costs by him be reviewed by a Magistrate on the application of any party to the taxation.
The amount which may be allowed on the taxation of any costs or bill of costs in respect of any item relating to proceedings in a Court of a
Magistrate shall not, except in so far as rules of court may otherwise provide, exceed the amount which could have been allowed in respect of that item as between party and party in those proceedings.
For the purposes of this section, the amount which may be allowed on the taxation of any costs or bill of costs in respect of an item as between party and party in relation to proceedings in a Court of a Magistrate shall, subject to rules of court, be such amount as the taxing officer, or, in the
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case of a review under subsection (2), a Magistrate, shall determine to be reasonable having regard to the nature of the proceedings and the amount of the claim and any counterclaim.
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;