{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-36.21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-36.21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/36.21",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "36.21",
  "heading": "Cases in which the offeror’s costs have been limited to court fees",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies in any case where the offeror is treated as having filed a costs budget limited to applicable court fees, or is otherwise limited in their recovery of costs to such fees.\n(Rule 3.14 provides that a litigant may be treated as having filed a budget limited to court fees for failure to file a budget.)\n(2) “Costs” in rules 36.13(5)(b), 36.17(3)(a) and 36.17(4)(b) shall mean—\n(a) in respect of those costs subject to any such limitation, 50% of the costs assessed without reference to the limitation; together with\n(b) any other recoverable costs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 36 substituted (6.4.2015) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 8) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/3299), rule 2(c), Sch. 1 (with rule 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 36.21 omitted and rule 36.23 renumbered as rule 36.21 by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 12(8)(9)(b) (with rule 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/36.21",
    "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."
}