{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-63.26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-63.26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/63.26",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "63.26",
  "heading": "Costs",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the court will reserve the costs of an application to the conclusion of the trial when they will be subject to summary assessment.\n(2) Where a party has behaved unreasonably the court may make an order for costs at the conclusion of the hearing.\n(3) Where the court makes a summary assessment of costs, it will do so in accordance with Section VII of Part 46.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 63 substituted (1.10.2009) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/2092), rule 1(2), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Pt. 63 Section 5 inserted (1.10.2010) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/1953), rule 1(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in rule 63.26(2) substituted (1.10.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1974), rules 2, 26(p)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 63.26(3) substituted (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 28(1) (with rule 1(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/63.26",
    "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."
}