Article 117 Procedure where detailed assessment requiredI1

Before making a detailed assessment of the costs of any person employed in energy administration proceedings by an energy administrator, the costs officer shall require a certificate of employment, which shall be endorsed on the bill and signed by the energy administrator.

The certificate shall include—

Every person whose costs in energy administration proceedings are required to be decided by detailed assessment shall, on being required in writing to do so by the energy administrator, commence detailed assessment proceedings in accordance with CPR Part 47 (procedure for detailed assessment of costs and default provisions).

If that person does not commence detailed assessment proceedings within 3 months of the requirement under paragraph (3), or within such further time as the court, on application, may permit, the energy administrator may deal with the assets of the protected energy company without regard to any claim by that person, whose claim is forfeited by such failure to commence proceedings.

Where in any such case such a claim lies additionally against an energy administrator in his personal capacity, that claim is also forfeited by such failure to commence proceedings.