(1)

This rule applies to party and party costs for fees paid or to be paid to a lawyer engaged as counsel.

(2)

The Registrar may allow the costs of engaging more than one counsel, including counsel who is not Queen's Counsel or Senior Counsel.

(3)

If:

(a)

counsel is engaged to attend at a trial; and

(b)

the trial takes more than one day;

the Registrar may allow a fee in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 3 for each further day or part of a day.

(4)

The Registrar must not allow:

(a)

a fee paid to counsel as a retainer;

(b)

a reading fee, unless:

(i)

the case is unusually complex; or

(ii)

the amount of material involved is particularly large;

(c)

for a case before a court of summary jurisdiction — an amount for counsel's fees, other than in accordance with item 203 or 204 of Schedule 3; or

(d)

if a daily fee for counsel's attendance is payable in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 3 — an additional amount for work done for the case by counsel on any day for which the daily fee applies.