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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/412",
  "legislation_title": "County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules.)\nThese Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981 to make a number of changes to the scale costs for solicitor and counsel prescribed in Appendix 2 including:\na reduction in the number of bands of costs for proceedings commenced by ordinary civil bill and an increase in the amount of costs payable;\nan increase in costs payable in respect of travelling and for drafting a reply to notice for further particulars;\nto otherwise increase costs by 4.3%;\nthe introduction of discretionary costs for drafting a notice for particulars;\ncombining in one Part the costs for title and equity suits reducing the number of bands of costs;\nprovision for enhancing costs by one third in certain complex cases; and\nother minor or consequential changes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/412/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:25.397121+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."
}