{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-3.18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-3.18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/3.18",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.18",
  "heading": "Assessing costs on the standard basis where a costs management order has been made",
  "text": "In any case where a costs management order has been made, when assessing costs on the standard basis, the court will—\n(a) have regard to the receiving party’s last approved or agreed budgeted costs for each phase of the proceedings; ...\n(b) not depart from such approved or agreed budgeted costs unless satisfied that there is good reason to do so ; and\n(c) take into account any comments made pursuant to rule 3.15(4) or 3.17(3) and recorded on the face of the order\n(Attention is drawn to rules 44.3(2)(a) and 44.3(5), which concern proportionality of costs.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 Sections 2, 3 inserted (1.4.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/262), rules 2, 5(h) (with rule 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.18(a) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/95), rules 2, 5(11)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in rule 3.18(a) omitted (6.4.2017) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/95), rules 2, 5(11)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.18(b) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/95), rules 2, 5(11)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 3.18(c) and word inserted (6.4.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/95), rules 2, 5(11)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in rule 3.18(c) substituted (1.10.2020) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/747), rules 1(1), 4(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 3.18 substituted (6.4.2016) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/234), rules 2, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 3.12-3.18 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/3.18",
    "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."
}