{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-45.45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-45.45.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/45.45",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "45.45",
  "heading": "Fixed costs",
  "text": "(1) In Table 12—\n(a) unless stated otherwise, “damages”—\n(i) means any form of monetary relief;\n(ii) in a claim which has no monetary value, shall be taken to mean an amount equivalent to—\n(aa) £10,000 in a claim assigned to complexity band 2;\n(bb) £15,000 in a claim assigned to complexity band 3; and\n(cc) £20,000 in a claim assigned to complexity band 4;\n(iii) in a claim which includes both a claim for monetary relief and a claim which has no monetary value, means the applicable amount in sub-paragraph (ii) taken together with the monetary value in sub-paragraph (i); and\n(iv) in so far as it applies to monetary relief, means—\n(aa) agreed damages; or\n(bb) an amount awarded following trial;\n(Rule 44.2 provides that the court has a discretion as to the costs order to be made including whether an order for costs relating only to a distinct part of the proceedings is appropriate.)\n(b) the figures in each of stages A to C are the cumulative totals for costs incurred up to and including that stage;\n(c) the figures in stage D are separate sums where the claim is disposed of at trial; and\n(d) a reference to a ‘trial’ is a reference to the final hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 45 substituted (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rule 1(1), Sch. 3 (with rule 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/45.45",
    "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."
}