Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1984 No. 425 FAMILY LAW RULES - ORDER 38 RULE 14

14. (1) Subject to sub-rules (2) and (3), time reasonably spent by a solicitor
in relation to an attendance at court for the purpose of a hearing of
proceedings includes time reasonably spent at the court in waiting for the
hearing to commence or resume and time reasonably spent in travelling to and
from the court.

(2) Time taken by a person travelling to and from the court for the purpose of
proceedings shall not be regarded as time reasonably spent to the extent to
which that time exceeds 2 hours unless exceptional circumstances justify it
being so regarded.

(3) Where a person undertakes an attendance at court in relation to 2 or more
proceedings, the amount that a solicitor may charge for each of those
proceedings by way of an additional amount for time reasonably spent at the
court in waiting for the hearings to commence or resume and time reasonably
spent in travelling to and from the court is an amount that bears the same
proportion to the amount that he would, but for this sub-rule, have been
entitled to charge under Item 7 or 8 of Schedule 2, as the case may be, in
relation to that attendance by virtue of the operation of sub-rule (1) and (2)
as the number 1 bears to the number of those proceedings.