Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) Subject to paragraph (3) and Rules 63A.24 and 63A.25, on taxation, the costs to be paid to a party to whom costs are payable in a proceeding are to be taxed in accordance with the Supreme Court costs scale, unless the Court, or in the absence of a determination of the Court, the Costs Court, otherwise orders.
(2) Paragraph (1) applies whether the basis of taxation is the standard basis or the indemnity basis or any other basis that may have been directed.
(3) The Court, or in the absence of a determination of the Court, the Costs Court, on special grounds arising out of the nature and importance or the difficulty or urgency of the case, may allow an increase, not exceeding 30 per cent, of the maximums set out in Sections 1 and 4 of the Supreme Court costs scale with respect to—
(a) the proceeding generally; or
(b) any application, step or other matter in the proceeding.
Rule 63A.34A (Heading) substituted by S.R. No. 135/2024 rule 12(1).