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Paragraph 41 The amount of a costs or expenses order

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(1)

The amount of a costs order against the paying party shall be determined in any of the following ways —

(a)

the tribunal may specify the sum which the paying party must pay to the receiving party, provided that sum does not exceed £10,000;

(b)

the parties may agree on a sum to be paid by the paying party to the receiving party and if they do so the costs order shall be for the sum so agreed;

(c)

the tribunal may order the paying party to pay the receiving party the whole or a specified part of the costs of the receiving party with the amount to be paid being determined by way of detailed assessment in a County Court in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules 1998f1 or, in Scotland, as taxed according to such part of the table of fees prescribed for proceedings in the sheriff court as shall be directed by the order.

(2)

The tribunal or chairman may have regard to the paying party’s ability to pay when considering whether it or he shall make a costs order or how much that order should be.

(3)

For the avoidance of doubt, the amount of a costs order made under paragraphs (1)(b) or (c) may exceed £10,000.

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f1

S.I. 1998/3132.