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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-simple-procedure-2016/schedule-1/part-14",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/200",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-simple-procedure-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/14",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "14: Expenses",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "14.1\nWhat is this Part about?\n(1)\nThis Part is about the expenses of a claim which the sheriff can order a party to pay for.\n14.2\nWhat orders about expenses can the sheriff make?\n(1)\nOnce a claim has been resolved, the sheriff must make an order about expenses, such as:\n(a)\nthat no payments are to be made in respect of the expenses of any party,\n(b)\nthat a payment is to be made to a party or to a party's solicitor.\n(2)\nExpenses incurred by a party to do with a courtroom supporter may not be part of an order about expenses.\n14.3\nWhen will the sheriff make an order about expenses?\n(1)\nIn a case where the expenses of a claim are capped, the sheriff must make an order about expenses when deciding the claim.\n(2)\nIn any other case, the sheriff must, if able to, make an order about expenses when deciding the claim.\n(3)\nIf not able to make an order about expenses when deciding the claim, the sheriff may make an order about expenses after deciding the claim.\n14.4\nWhat if the sheriff does not make an order about expenses when deciding the claim?\n(1)\nIf the sheriff makes an order about expenses after deciding the claim, then the sheriff must not set out the final decision in a case in a Decision Form until the order about expenses is made.\n(2)\nIf the sheriff does not make an order about expenses when deciding the claim, the sheriff must give the parties written orders.\n(3)\nThose orders must arrange an expenses hearing.\n(4)\nThose orders must require a party to send an account of expenses to the court and to each other before the expenses hearing.\n(5)\nThose orders may then require the sheriff clerk to assess the level of expenses (if any) that should be awarded to a party and to send notice of that assessment to the parties before the expenses hearing.\n14.5\nWhat is an expenses hearing?\n(1)\nThe purpose of an expenses hearing is to assess the level of expenses (if any) that should be awarded to a party.\n(2)\nAt the expenses hearing, the sheriff must make an order about expenses, such as:\n(a)\nthat no payments are to be made in respect of the expenses of any party,\n(b)\nthat a payment is to be made to a party or to a party's solicitor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in sch. 1 rule 14.4(4) substituted (31.5.2023) by Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/211), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(y) (with para. 3)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/200/schedule/1/part/14",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}