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LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2022 - SECT 133

133 .         Legal costs determinations

        (1)         The Legal Costs Committee may make legal costs determinations regulating the costs that may be charged by law practices in respect of —

            (a)         non-contentious business; and

            (b)         contentious business before —

                  (i)         the Supreme Court; or

                  (ii)         the District Court; or

                  (iii)         the Magistrates Court; or

                  (iv)         a court of summary jurisdiction; or

                  (v)         the State Administrative Tribunal; or

                  (vi)         the Family Court of Western Australia; or

                  (vii)         any other court declared by the Attorney General under section 134(1) to be a court to which this section applies.

        (2)         A costs determination may provide that law practices may charge —

            (a)         according to a scale of rates of commission or percentages; or

            (b)         a specified amount; or

            (c)         a maximum amount; or

            (d)         in any other way or combination of ways.

        (3)         A costs determination —

            (a)         may differ according to different classes of legal services; and

            (b)         may confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or class of persons.

        (4)         Subsection (5) applies if —

            (a)         another written law refers to a costs determination under this section or as defined in this Act; and

            (b)         the law refers to a determination in relation to a matter not listed in subsection (1).

        (5)         The Legal Costs Committee may make the determination for the purposes of that written law.



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