Queensland Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1999 - REG 657A

657A Written reasons for decision

(1) Within 14 days after receiving a copy of an account assessor’s certificate of account assessment, a party may make a written request to the account assessor for reasons for any decision included in the certificate of account assessment.

(2) If an account assessor receives a request under subrule (1) , the account assessor must—

(a) within 21 days, give written reasons for the decision to each of the parties who participated in the account assessment; and

(b) give a copy of the written reasons to the registry of the court in which the certificate of account assessment was filed.

(3) A party requesting reasons must pay the account assessor’s reasonable costs of preparing the reasons and those costs form part of the party’s costs in the proceeding.

(4) The court may publish written reasons in the way it considers appropriate.

Example—

The reasons may be published on the Queensland Courts website.