{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-44.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-44.6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/44.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "44.6",
  "heading": "Procedure for assessing costs",
  "text": "(1) Where the court orders a party to pay costs to another party (other than fixed costs) it may ...—\n(a) make a summary assessment of the costs; ...\n(b) give directions for the summary assessment of the costs to be made at a later date; or\n(c) order detailed assessment of the costs by a costs officer,\nunless any rule, practice direction or other enactment provides otherwise.\n(Practice Direction 44 – General rules about costs sets out the factors which will affect the court’s decision under paragraph (1).)\n(2) Where a direction has been given under paragraph (1)(b), another judge who could have decided the claim or application which gave rise to the costs order may make the summary assessment if there is good reason to do so.\n(3) A party may recover the fixed costs specified in Part 45 in accordance with that Part.",
  "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": "Word in rule 44.6(1) omitted (1.10.2025) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 7(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in rule 44.6(1)(a) omitted (1.10.2025) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 7(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 44.6(1)(b) inserted (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 7(2)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 44.6(1)(b) renumbered as rule 44.6(1)(c) (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 7(2)(a)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Rule 44.6(2) inserted (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Rule 44.6(2) renumbered as rule 44.6(3) (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 7(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/44.6",
    "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."
}