County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981 to make a number of changes to the scale costs for solicitor and counsel prescribed in Appendix 2 including:

• a reduction in the number of bands of costs for proceedings commenced by ordinary civil bill and an increase in the amount of costs payable;

• an increase in costs payable in respect of travelling and for drafting a reply to notice for further particulars;

• to otherwise increase costs by 4.3%;

• the introduction of discretionary costs for drafting a notice for particulars;

• combining in one Part the costs for title and equity suits reducing the number of bands of costs;

• provision for enhancing costs by one third in certain complex cases; and

• other minor or consequential changes.