Article 28 Wasted costs orders

Subject to paragraph (2), where the court has disallowed the whole or any part of any wasted costs under section 19A of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985^f1 (costs against legal representatives etc.), the appropriate officer, in determining fees in respect of work done by the representative against whom the wasted costs order was made, may deduct the amount in the wasted costs order from the amount otherwise payable in accordance with this Order.

Where the appropriate officer, in accordance with this article, is minded to disallow any amount of a claim for work done to which the wasted costs order relates, he must disallow that amount or the amount of the wasted costs order, whichever is the greater.