Rule 21.3 Award of expensesI1
Scotland
Subject to paragraph (2), the determination of an application made under rule 21.2(1) is at the discretion of the Court.
Where, having determined an application made under rule 21.2(1), the Court makes an award of expenses against the pursuer on the ground specified in rule 21.2(2)(a) or (b)—
the pursuer’s liability is not to exceed the amount of expenses the applicant has incurred after the date of the tender;
the liability of the pursuer to the applicant, or applicants, who lodged the tender is to be limited to an aggregate sum, payable to all applicants (if more than one) of 75% of the amount of damages awarded to the pursuer and that sum is to be calculated without offsetting against those expenses any expenses due to the pursuer by the applicant, or applicants, before the date of the tender;
the Court must order that the pursuer’s liability is not to exceed the sum referred to in sub-paragraph (b), notwithstanding that any sum assessed by the Auditor of Court as payable under the tender procedure may be greater or, if modifying those expenses to a fixed sum in terms of rule 20.1(2), that such sum does not exceed that referred to in sub-paragraph (b);
where the award of expenses is in favour of more than one applicant the Court, failing agreement between the applicants, must apportion the award of expenses recoverable under the tender procedure between them.
In the event that the Court makes an award of expenses against the pursuer on the ground specified in rule 21.2(2)(c), the Court may make such orders in respect of expenses, subject to such conditions, if any, as it considers appropriate.
Annotations
Commencement
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Para. 21.3 in force at 6.1.2022, see para. 1.1(2)