Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

FEDERAL CIRCUIT AND FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA (FAMILY LAW) RULES 2021 - RULE 12.42

  (1)   At a preliminary assessment of an itemised costs account, a Judicial Registrar must, in the absence of the parties, calculate the amount (the preliminary assessment amount ) for which, if the costs were to be assessed, the costs assessment order would be likely to be made.

  (2)   The Judicial Registrar must give each party written notice of the preliminary assessment amount.