Queensland Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1999 - REG 743O

743O Charges for costs assessments

(1) The Chief Justice may make a practice direction under this rule setting the maximum hourly rate chargeable by a costs assessor.

(2) At any time the hourly rate for a costs assessor may not be more than the maximum hourly rate at that time set by the practice direction.

(3) For a costs assessment—

(a) the costs assessor is entitled to charge only for the number of hours reasonably spent by the costs assessor on the assessment (which number may be, or include, a fraction); and

(b) time spent by the costs assessor reading the application for the costs assessment and any documents filed in the application is taken to be time spent by the costs assessor on the assessment; and

(c) the costs assessor’s total charge is the number of hours reasonably spent by the costs assessor on the assessment multiplied by the costs assessor’s current hourly rate.

(4) However, for a particular costs assessment, a costs assessor may agree to charge an hourly rate that is less than the costs assessor’s current hourly rate.

(5) In this rule—

"current hourly rate" , of a costs assessor for a costs assessment, means the hourly rate of the costs assessor applicable for the costs assessment that is set out in the list of costs assessors at the time the costs assessor was appointed to carry out the costs assessment.