The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1990

The community charge

In relation to domestic property within the meaning of section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988^f1, references in Order 6, rule 3(1)(b) to the net annual value for rating or to the net value for rating shall be construed as references to the value shown on the valuation list in force on 31st March 1990 or to its value by the year, as the case may be.

Order 38, rule 13(2) shall be amended by substituting, for the figures “£17.00” and “£24.00”, the figures “£18.50” and “£26.00” respectively.

Order 38, rule 14(1) shall be amended by substituting, for the figures “£24.00”, “£48.00” and “£95.00” wherever they appear in the Table, the figures “£26.00”, “£51.50” and “£102.00” respectively.

Appendix A shall be amended by substituting, for the entries in the last 3 columns corresponding to the numbered items, the following —

“

Item No.	Scale 1	Scale 2	Scale 3
	£ 100 500	£ 500-3,000	£ 3.000+
1		FOR ALL SCALES 7.00 — 28.50
2		FOR ALL SCALES 7.00 — 27.40
3		FOR ALL SCALES 4.95 per page (or proportionately) 3.30 per page (or proportionately)
4 (a)		FOR ALL SCALES 0.60 per page 1.00 per page 1.35 per page
(b)		FOR ALL SCALES 0.20 per page 0.40 per page
5		FOR ALL SCALES 11.80 — 75.00
6	such sum as is fair and reasonable not exceeding £420	such sum as is fair and reasonable not exceeding £1070	Discretionary
7	7.00	7.00	11.80
8		FOR ALL SCALES 11.80
9 (a)	not exceeding 31.00	not exceeding 86.00	not exceeding 106.00
(b)	7.00 – 15.00	7.00 – 22.50	7.00 – 29.50
10		FOR ALL SCALES 3.75 – 11.25
11 (a)	not exceeding 52.50	not exceeding 127.00	not exceeding 183.00
(b)	7.00 – 17.00	7.00 – 63.00	7.00 – 91.00
12 (a)	30 – 107	37 – 247	Discretionary
(b)	15 – 55	18.50 – 124	Discretionary
(c)	11.50 – 44	14 – 61	16 – 85
(d)		FOR ALL SCALES 21.50
(e) On conference in chambers or elsewhere: for each half hour or part thereof	6.95	11.50	16.00
and for leading counsel.	8.00	19.00	30.00
(f)	6.95 – 11.75	11.75 – 31.00	14.00 – 44.50
(g)	4.25 – 13.00	13.00 – 37.00	15.00 – 75.50
(h)	8.00 – 21.50	21.50 – 61.00	25.00 – 124.50
13 (a)	8.20 – 22.00	8.20 – 61.25	8.20 – 78.50
(b)	8.20	8.20 – 22 00	8.20 – 31.75

”.

Appendix B, Part I, paragraph 4 shall be amended by substituting, for the Tables of Fixed Costs, the following Tables

“TABLES OF FIXED COSTS

TABLE I

Where claim exceeds £25 but does not exceed £250

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	22.50
(b) Where service is by solicitor	25.25

TABLE II

Where claim exceeds £250 but does not exceed £600

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	30.00
(b) Where service is by solicitor	35 50

TABLE III

Where ciaim exceeds £600 but does not exceed £2,000

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	50.50
(b) Where service is by solicitor	56.00

TABLE IV

Where claim exceeds £2,000

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	55.00
(b) Where service is by solicitor	60.00

7

Appendix B, Part II shall be amended by substituting, for the entries in column 2, corresponding to the lettered paragraphs in column 1, the following –

“

(a)	8.00		15.00	16.50
(b)	14.00		29.50	34.50
(c)	19.00		37.50	44.50
(d)	28.00		41.75	52.00
(e)		65.00		74.00

”.

8

Appendix B, Part III shall be amended by substituting, for paragraphs (a) and (b) of item 7 and for the amounts to be allowed corresponding to the numbered items, the following –

“

	Amount be allowed
1	9.00
2	9.00
3	1.60
4	6.00
5	18.25
6	6.00
7 (a) where the money recovered is less than £65.00	one half of the amount recovered
(b) where the money recovered is not less than £65.00	34.00
8.	52.00
9	5.75

”.

9

Appendix C, paragraph 2 shall be amended by substituting, for the Table, the following –

Column 1	Column 2
Scale	Amount of charges
Lower Scale	42.00 – 65.00
Scale 1	46.50 – 118.00
Scale 2	73.00 – 443.00
Scale 3	106.00 – 534.00

”.

(This note is not part of the Rules)