The County Court Rules 1981 (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1982

Costs

12.  Order 28, rule 10(2)(a) shall be amended by adding after item (i) the following item—

“(ii) a fee to counsel if the court certifies that the case is fit for counsel;”

and the following items shall be re-numbered accordingly.

13.  Item 12(c) in Appendix A shall be amended by adding at the end the words

“or application for attachment of earnings order”.

14.  Paragraph (d)(i) and the word “or” at the end of item (i) in Column 1 of the Table in Appendix B, Part II shall be omitted.

15.  Order 38, rule 13(2) shall be amended by substituting, for the figures “£12” and “£17”, the figures “£13” and “£18” respectively.

16.  Order 38, rule 14(1) shall be amended by substituting, for the figures “£17”, “£34” and “£68” wherever they appear in the Table, the figures “£18”, “£37” and “£73” respectively.

17.  Appendix A shall be amended by substituting, for the entries in the last 3 columns corresponding to the numbered items, the following:—

“Item No
1.		FOR ALL SCALES 5–20
2.		FOR ALL SCALES 5–19
3.		FOR ALL SCALES 3.50 per page (or proportionately) 2.50 per page (or proportionately)
4. (a)		FOR ALL SCALES 0.50p per page 0.80p per page 1.15p per page
5.		FOR ALL SCALES 9–54
6.		such sum as is fair and reasonable not exceeding 300	such sum as is fair and reasonable not exceeding 755	Discretionary
8.		FOR ALL SCALES 9
		not exceeding	not exceeding	not exceeding
9. (a)		22	60	75
(b)		5–10	5–16	5–22
		not exceeding	not exceeding	not exceeding
11. (a)		38	87	130
(b)		5–12	5–43	5–65
12. (a)		22–75	27–175	Discretionary
(b)		10–38	14–87	Discretionary
(c)		8–32	10–43	12–60
		FOR ALL SCALES
(d)		16
(e)	On conference in chambers or elsewhere: for each half-hour or part thereof	5	9	11
	and for leading Counsel	6	14	22
(f)		5–9	9–21	10–30
(g)		4–9	10–26	11–40
13. (a)		6–17	6–45	6–55
(b)		6	6–17	6–22”

18.  Appendix B Part I paragraph 4 shall be amended by substituting, for the Tables of Fixed Costs, the following Tables:—

“TABLES OF FIXED COSTS

   

TABLE 1

Where claim exceeds £25 but does not exceed £250

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	16.00
(b) Where service is by solicitor	17.00

   

TABLE II

Where claim exceeds £250 but does not exceed £600

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	22.00
(b) Where service is by solicitor	25.00

   

TABLE III

Where claim exceeds £600 but does not exceed £2,000

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	36.00
(b) Where service is by solicitor	39.00

   

TABLE IV

Where claim exceeds £2,000

	Amount of charges
	£
(a) Where service is not by solicitor	39.00
(b) Where service is by solicitor	42.00”.

19.  Appendix B Part II shall be amended by substituting, for the Table, the following Table—

“Fixed Costs on Judgments

Column 2
Sum of money
Column 1
	A	B	C
	Exceeding £25 but not exceeding £600	Exceeding £600 but not exceeding £3,000	Exceeding £3,000
	£	£	£
(a) Where judgment is entered in a default action in default of defence	6.50	11.00	12.00
(b) Where judgment is entered on the defendant's admission and the plaintiff's acceptance of his proposal as to mode of payment	10.00	22.00	24.00
(c) Where judgment is entered on an admission delivered by the defendant and the court's decision is given as to the date of payment or instalments by which payment is to be made	14.00	27.00	32.00
(d) Where judgment is given in a fixed date action for— (ii) delivery of goods; or (iii) possession of land suspended on payment of arrears of rent, whether claimed or not, in addition to current rent, and the defendant has neither delivered a defence, admission or counterclaim, nor 2otherwise denied liability	19.00	30.00	37.00
Exceeding £500 but not exceeding £3,000		Exceeding £3,000
(e) Where summary judgment is given under Order 9, rule 14	£46.00		£53.00”

20.  Appendix B Part III shall be amended by substituting, for the amounts to be allowed corresponding to the numbered items, the following:—

	“Amount to be allowed
1.	£6.50
2.	£6.50
3.	£1.10
4.	£4.25
5.	£13.00
6.	£4.25
7. (b)	£22.00
8.	£22.00
9.	£4.25”.

21.  Appendix C paragraph 2 shall be amended by substituting, for the Table, the following:—

“Column 1	Column 2
Scale	Amount of Charges
Lower Scale	£30 to £45
Scale 1	£35 to £85
Scale 2	£52 to £315
Scale 3	£75 to £380”

22.—(1) Nothing in these Rules shall, unless expressly so provided, apply to anything done before they come into operation.

(2) Where costs fall to be fixed or assessed under Appendix B or C by virtue of a judgment or order given, entered or made after the date of the coming into operation of the preceding Rules, they may be fixed, or assessed, as the case may be, as if all the work to which they relate had been done after that date.