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(f)
providing for payment of the costs ordered within 14 days of the date of the
order unless the court orders otherwise;
(g)
placing a duty on the parties and their legal representatives to assist the court in
making any summary assessment of costs;
(h)
requiring each party to an interlocutory application before the master to file
statements of costs (setting out the costs so far incurred in respect of such
application) in accordance with the automatic directions discussed in the
preceding part of this Section,
enabling the master, where appropriate, to
dispose of the application without a hearing and simultaneously to make a
summary assessment of costs in respect thereof;
(i)
where the application is heard orally before the master or the judge, requiring
each party to prepare and have available at the hearing, a written statement
(signed by the party or his solicitor) of the amounts he would claim if awarded
costs, showing separately in the form of a schedule :-
(i)
the number of hours to be claimed,
(ii)
the hourly rate to be claimed,
(iii)
the grade of fee earner;
(iv)
the amount and nature of any disbursement to be claimed other than
counsel's fee for appearing at the hearing,
(v)
the amount of solicitor's costs to be claimed for attending or appearing at
the hearing; and,
(vi)
the fees of counsel to be claimed in respect of the hearing;
(j)
providing for the consequences of a party not having such a statement ready;
Notes
44PD.7 §13.5(1).
Section 17.4.
44PD.7 §13.5(2) and (3).
44PD.7 §13.6.
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