Law of costs / G. E. Dal Pont.

Chatswood, N.S.W. : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2021.

5th edition

199616

Costs (Law) -- Australia.

1. Prologue

Part I: Costs Between Lawyer and Own Client

2. Retainer and Costs Disclosure

3. Costs Agreements

4. Restrictions on the Recovery of Lawyer-Client Costs

5. Assessment of Lawyer and Own Client Bills

Part II: Costs Between Party and Party

6. Jurisdiction and Discretion to Order Costs

7. The Costs Indemnity Rule

8. Ouster of General Rule that Costs Follow the Event

9. Public Interest and Test Case Litigation

10. Costs Out of a Fund

11. Costs of Multiple Parties

12. Costs Sanctions for Proceedings in Wrong Court

13. Costs Consequences of Rejected Settlement Offers

14. Timing of Costs Order

Part III: Quantification of Party and Party Costs

15. Nature of Party and Party Costs Quantification

16. Bases of Costs Quantification

17. Allowances on Costs Quantification Between Party and Party

18. Procedure Relating to Costs Quantification

19. Interest on Party and Party Costs

Part IV: Costs in Appeals

20. Appeals

21. Suitors' and Appeal Costs Funds Legislation

Part V: Non-Party Costs Orders

22. Costs Orders and Non-parties

23. Costs Orders Against Lawyers

Part VI: Costs in Criminal Cases

24. Costs in Criminal Cases

25. Costs in Criminal Cases Legislation

Part VII: Securing Costs Entitlements

26. The Retaining Lien

27. The Particular Lien

28. Nature of Security for Costs Orders

29. Discretion to Order Security for Costs.

Law of Costs 5th edition comprehensively addresses the legislation, court rules and case law pertaining to the law of costs in each Australian jurisdiction, as well as federally, in both the lawyer-client and party-party contexts. The authoritative nature of this work is evidenced by its previous editions being judicially cited on hundreds of occasions. It remains the only dedicated scholarly treatment of Australian costs law in book form. Features: brings the case law up to date ; reflects, from a costs standpoint, the wholesale alterations to civil procedure in South Australia; emanating from the jurisdiction’s adoption of the Uniform Civil Rules 2020; covers the substantive changes to the Northern Territory’s rules on settlement offers. - Publisher's website.

Previous edition: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780409348453

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