{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-45.54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-45.54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/45.54",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "45.54",
  "heading": "More than one defendant",
  "text": "(1) ) In Table 15, the reference to the number of defendants is to the number of active defendants against whom the claimant obtains a settlement or an award of damages.\n(2) Where the defendants have all admitted liability and coordinate settlement between them, only one set of Stage 2 costs is allowed.\n(3) Where at least one defendant admits liability and settles pre-litigation and at least one defendant denies liability—\n(a) the fixed costs payable by those defendants who have admitted liability are 100% of the stage 2A or 2B costs for those defendants as appropriate; and\n(b) Stage 3 and any subsequent stages shall apply to the remaining defendants, provided that the claimant must give credit for the costs already payable under (a), so that the maximum entitlement under any stage is for the applicable stage costs.",
  "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/45.54",
    "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."
}