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SUPREME COURT (COURT OF APPEAL) RULES 2005 - REG 66

66 .         Costs

        (1)         In this rule —

        costs includes disbursements.

        (2)         If a party does not file a document required by these rules within the time specified for doing so in —

            (a)         these rules; or

            (b)         an order made under these rules, other than an order that extends any such time,

                the party is not entitled to the costs of preparing and filing the document unless the Court of Appeal orders otherwise.

        (2A)         If —

            (a)         an order made under these rules extends the time for filing a document specified in these rules or in an order made under them; and

            (b)         the document is filed within that extended time,

                the party who filed it is entitled to the costs of preparing and filing the document unless the order extending time is accompanied by an order that, unless the Court of Appeal orders otherwise, the party is not so entitled.

        (3)         Subrules (2) and (2A) do not prevent the Court of Appeal from making an order under the RSC Order 66 rule 5 in respect of the costs of preparing and filing the document concerned.

        (4)         The costs of preparing and settling the indexes to, and of preparing, filing and serving, the appeal book are costs in the appeal unless the Court of Appeal orders otherwise.

        (5)         The costs of copies of unnecessary documents or of copies of unnecessary parts of documents will not be allowed.

        [Rule 66 amended: Gazette 22 Aug 2017 p. 4536‑7.]



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