(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.