Costs assessments: unravelling the mysteries of certificate judgments
A certificate of determination and a judgment which arises on its filing are distinct. By MICHELLE CASTLE and ANDREW BAILEY.
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Proportionality in costs assessments: a new dawn?
Section 172 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) imposes a new test for determining the fair and reasonable costs that a legal practitioner may charge a…
The NSW experiment: the regulation and assessment of legal costs
The assessment process has drawn well-founded criticism, but we should not pronounce it a failure without giving the experiment its best chance of success. By…