New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW (NSW) - SECT 180

180 Making costs agreements

(1) A costs agreement may be made--

(a) between a client and a law practice retained by the client; or

(b) between a client and a law practice retained on behalf of the client by another law practice; or

(c) between a law practice and another law practice that retained that law practice on behalf of a client; or

(d) between a law practice and an associated third party payer.

(2) A costs agreement must be written or evidenced in writing.

(3) A costs agreement may consist of a written offer that is accepted in writing or (except in the case of a conditional costs agreement) by other conduct.

(4) A costs agreement cannot provide that the legal costs to which it relates are not subject to a costs assessment.