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SUPREME COURT (GENERAL CIVIL PROCEDURE) RULES 2015 (SR NO 103 OF 2015) - REG 63.42

Content of bill of costs

    (1)     In a bill of costs for taxation under this Order charges and disbursements shall be set out in separate columns, and the amounts in each column shall be totalled at the foot of each page and the total carried forward to the top of the next page.

    (2)     The bill shall contain—

        (a)     items numbered in chronological order describing briefly the work done by the solicitor for the party entitled to costs, and stating beside each item the amount claimed for the work and the amount of any disbursement made;

        (b)     at the conclusion of the chronological description of the work done, a description, having regard to the matters referred to in Rule 63.48, of work done justifying an allowance under Appendix A of the amount claimed beside that item;

        (c)     disclosure of the actual hourly rates charged to the party.

    (3)     For the purpose of paragraph (2)(a), work done in Victoria by a servant or agent of the solicitor shall be taken to have been done by the solicitor.

    (4)     Where work for which costs are claimed was done by a clerk of the solicitor and that fact is relevant to the amount of costs allowable for the work, the name and position of the clerk shall be stated in the bill.



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