Regulation 113 Application to carry in objections to the taxation

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 46(2 ) amended by Civil Legal Aid (General) 1991
regs.113-118 replaced (by reg.113) by Civil Legal Aid (General) 2000 reg.16
reg.113(1) amended by Civil Legal Aid (General) 1994 reg.16(a)
reg.113(2)(a) rev. in Pt. by Civil Legal Aid (General) 1994 reg.16(b)
reg 113 am by Civil Legal Aid (General) 2001 reg 4
reg 113 rev in pt by Civil Legal Aid (General) 2003 reg 4

(1)

In this regulation, in regulation 114 and in regulation 116, “legal aid taxation” means the taxation of a solicitor’s bill to his own client where that bill is to be paid out of the fund.

(2)

Where–

(a)

an assisted person is dissatisfied with any decision of a taxing officer (except a decision under regulation 106) as to the amount which he is entitled to recover by virtue of an order or agreement for costs made in his favour or for which he is liable by virtue of an order for costs made against him; or

(b)

the assisted person’s solicitor is dissatisfied with any decision of the taxing officer–

(i)

on an inter partes taxation pursuant to an order for costs made in favour of the assisted person, or

(ii)

on a legal aid taxation,

the solicitor shall apply to the appropriate area committee for authority to carry in objections to the taxation; and if the area committee gives authority (but not otherwise) the solicitor may carry in objections in accordance with rules of court.