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Indeed, with a view to assisting the courts to arrive at consistent and fair summary
assessments of costs and to tax bills accurately, all available reliable information as to
fees and costs should be collected, tabulated and published regularly by the judiciary,
based on costs awards made by the taxing masters and other suitable sources with a
view to developing costs indications for general use. Such published information
might also assist parties in the negotiation of fees and in settling disputes as to costs.
Recommendation 127: Proposal 55 (relating to benchmark costs, as outlined
in the Interim Report) should not be adopted, without prejudice to the adoption,
where thought appropriate, of costs indications complied from available reliable
costs information, for fixing costs in specialist lists and for guidance generally.
Recommendation 128: The Judiciary should compile and publish information
as to costs derived from the decisions of taxing masters and other reliable
sources to promote consistency, accuracy and fairness in judicial awards of
costs and to assist parties in the negotiation of legal fees and in settling disputes
as to costs.
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