# The Rules of the Scottish Land Court Order 2014, Paragraph 89: Employment of counsel


(1) For the purposes of taxation, (1)the court may sanction the employment of junior counsel for any stage of a case in any or all of the following circumstances—
(a) the case is difficult or complex;
(b) the case, or a matter arising as regards the case, is of particular importance or value to the party represented;
(c) junior counsel has been employed at a hearing and there has been no attendance by a solicitor.
(2) The court may sanction the employment of senior counsel (alone or along with junior counsel) in any or all of the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) of paragraph (1) if it accepts that such employment of senior counsel is justified.
(3) The fees allowed at taxation as counsel’s fees are to take account of those for the time being payable to junior counsel for the type of work in question or for work analogous to the type of work in question (account being also taken of the fee proposed for any solicitor acting in the case, or as the case may be, of the fact that the employment of counsel is being sanctioned in the circumstances mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c)).
(4) Where the employment of senior counsel is sanctioned, the auditor may determine what fee should be allowed in addition to that allowed under paragraph (3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/229/schedule/paragraph/89 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-scottish-land-court-order-2014/schedule/paragraph-89
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