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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/part-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/part-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "part/46",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "COSTS –SPECIAL CASES",
  "text": "Contents of this Part\nTitle\nNumber\nSECTION I – COSTS PAYABLE BY OR TO PARTICULAR PERSONS\nPre-commencement disclosure and orders for disclosure against a person who is not a party\n46.1\nCosts orders in favour of or against non-parties\n46.2\nLimitations on court’s power to award costs in favour of trustee or personal representative\n46.3\nCosts where money is payable by or to a child or protected party\n46.4\nLitigants in person\n46.5\nCosts where the court has made a group litigation order\n46.6\nOrders in respect of pro bono representation\n46.7\nSECTION II – COSTS RELATING TO LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES\nPersonal liability of legal representative for costs – wasted costs orders\n46.8\nBasis of detailed assessment of solicitor and client costs\n46.9\nAssessment procedure\n46.10\nSECTION III – COSTS ON ALLOCATION AND RE-ALLOCATION\nCosts on the small claims track and fast track\n46.11\nLimitation on amount court may allow where a claim allocated to the fast track settles before trial\n46.12\nCosts following allocation, re-allocation and non-allocation\n46.13\nSECTION IV – COSTS-ONLY PROCEEDINGS\nCosts-only proceedings\n46.14\nSECTION V – COSTS IN CLAIMS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW\nClaims for judicial review: costs against interveners\nRule 46.15\nSECTION VI – JUDICIAL REVIEW COSTS CAPPING ORDERS UNDER PART 4 OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND COURTS ACT 2015\nJudicial review costs capping orders – general\nRule 46.16\nApplications for judicial review costs capping orders\nRule 46.17\nCourt to consider making directions\nRule 46.18\nApplications to vary judicial review costs capping orders\nRule 46.19\nVII SCALE COSTS FOR CLAIMS IN THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENTERPRISE COURT\nScope and interpretation\nRule 46.20\nAmount of scale costs\nRule 46.21\nSummary assessment of the costs of an application where a party has behaved unreasonably\nRule 46.22\nVIII ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COSTS\nEnvironmental review costs\nRule 46.23\nSECTION IX COSTS LIMITS IN AARHUS CONVENTION CLAIMS\nScope and interpretation\nrule 46.24\nOpting out, and other cases where rules 46.26 to 46.28 do not apply to a claimant\nrule 46.25\nLimit on costs recoverable from a party in an Aarhus Convention claim\nrule 46.26\nVarying the limit on costs recoverable from a party in an Aarhus Convention claim\nrule 46.27\nChallenging whether the claim is an Aarhus Convention claim\nrule 46.28",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pts. 44-48 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/262), rules 2, 16, Sch. (with rule 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 46 Table of Contents inserted (8.8.2016) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/707), rules 2, 5(a) (with rule 6); S.I. 2016/717, art. 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 46 Table of Contents inserted (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 18(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 46 Table of Contents inserted (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 16(1) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 46 applied (with modifications) (1.7.2015) by S.I. 2007/1744, rule 160 (as substituted by The Court of Protection (Amendment) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/548), rules 1(2)(b), 52)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/part/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}