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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2006 - SECT 300C

Recovery of assessed costs

    (1)     This section applies if the Supreme Court assesses an amount of legal costs.

    (2)     If an amount of the legal costs has been paid before the assessment was made, any amount by which the amount paid exceeds the amount assessed may be recovered as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.

    (3)     If an amount of the legal costs has not been paid—

        (a)     the assessment is taken to be a judgment of the Supreme Court for the amount of the unpaid legal costs and may be enforced accordingly; and

        (b)     the rate of interest payable on the amount is the rate applying under the Court Procedures Rules 2006

, schedule 2, part 2.2 (Interest after judgment).



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