In this Part –

business day means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a statutory holiday within the meaning of the Statutory Holidays Act 2000 ;

conditional costs agreement means a costs agreement that provides that the payment of some or all of the legal costs is conditional on the successful outcome of the matter to which those costs relate, as referred to in section 307 (Conditional costs agreements), but does not include a costs agreement to the extent to which section 308 (Conditional costs agreements involving uplift fees) or section 309 (Contingency fees prohibited) applies;

costs agreement means an agreement about the payment of legal costs;

costs assessment means an assessment of legal costs under Division 7 ;

costs assessor means a person who is a taxing officer of the Supreme Court under section 10 of the Supreme Court Act 1959 ;

disbursements includes outlays;

itemised bill means a bill that specifies in detail how the legal costs are made up in a way that would allow them to be assessed under Division 7 ;

litigious matter means a matter that involves, or is likely to involve, the issue of proceedings in a court or tribunal;

Note. A matter is a litigious matter when proceedings are initiated or at any stage when proceedings are in a court or tribunal.

lump sum bill means a bill that describes the legal services to which it relates and specifies the total amount of the legal costs;

public authority means an authority or body (whether a body corporate or not) established or incorporated for a public purpose by a law of a jurisdiction or of the Commonwealth, and includes a body corporate incorporated under a law of a jurisdiction or of the Commonwealth in which a jurisdiction or the Commonwealth has a controlling interest;

sophisticated client means a client to whom, because of section 295(1)(c) or (d) , disclosure under section 291 or section 293(1) is not or was not required;

third party payer see section 284 (Terms relating to third party payers);

uplift fee means additional legal costs (excluding disbursements) payable under a costs agreement on the successful outcome of the matter to which the agreement relates.