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This Part is referred to in: Part 44 (44.1), (44.3C), Civil Recovery PD (7.3), (7B.2), PDP 02b (3.1), PDP 07 (3.9), PDP 08 (4.2), PDP 15 (1.4), PDP 16 (13.3), PDP 26 (2.1), (7.4), PDP 42 (2.7), PDP 43 (1.1), PDP 51 (18), (18), PDP 69 (9.2), Chancery Guide - Chap 1 (1.11), Chancery Guide - Chap 11 (11.2), (kr1), QB Guide - Chapter 2 (2.5), Comm Ct Guide - Pt F (F14.2), Comm Ct Guide - Pt J (J13.2), SCCO costs guide - Section 2 (2.14), 1-800 Flowers Inc v Phonenames Ltd [2], BA v British Coal Corporation [33], [33], Contractreal v Davies [62], Home Office v Lownds [16], Malkinson v Trim [18], [18], Norris v Norris [5], R (Corner House Research) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [64].
This Part is referred to in the following SIs: Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (23), Court of Protection Rules 2007 (160).

Part 43 SCOPE OF COST RULES AND DEFINITIONS

Contents of this Part
Title Number
Scope of this Part Rule 43.1
Definitions and application Rule 43.2
Meaning of summary assessment Rule 43.3
Meaning of detailed assessment Rule 43.4
Scope of this Part
43.1   

This Part contains definitions and interpretation of certain matters set out in the rules about costs contained in Parts 44 to 48.

(Part 44 contains general rules about costs; Part 45 deals with fixed costs; Part 46 deals with fast track trial costs; Part 47 deals with the detailed assessment of costs and related appeals and Part 48 deals with costs payable in special cases)

This Rule is referred to in: PDP 67 (2.3).
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Definitions and application
43.2   
(1)     In Parts 44 to 48, unless the context otherwise requires –
(a)     ‘costs’ includes fees, charges, disbursements, expenses, remuneration, reimbursement allowed to a litigant in person under rule 48.6, any additional liability incurred under a funding arrangement and any fee or reward charged by a lay representative for acting on behalf of a party in proceedings allocated to the small claims track;
(b)     ‘costs judge’ means a taxing master of the Senior Courts;
(ba)     ‘Costs Office’ means the Senior Courts Costs Office;
(c)     ‘costs officer’ means –
(i)     a costs judge;
(ii)     a district judge; and
(iii)     an authorised court officer;
(d)     ‘authorised court officer’ means any officer of –
(i)     a county court;
(ii)     a district registry;
(iii)     the Principal Registry of the Family Division; or
(iv)     the Costs Office,

whom the Lord Chancellor has authorised to assess costs.

(e)     ‘fund’ includes any estate or property held for the benefit of any person or class of person and any fund to which a trustee or personal representative is entitled in that capacity ;
(f)     ‘receiving party’ means a party entitled to be paid costs;
(g)     ‘paying party’ means a party liable to pay costs;
(h)     ‘assisted person’ means an assisted person within the statutory provisions relating to legal aid;
(i)     ‘LSC funded client’ means an individual who receives services funded by the Legal Services Commission as part of the Community Legal Service within the meaning of Part I of the Access to Justice Act 1999;
(j)     ‘fixed costs’ means the amounts which are to be allowed in respect of solicitors’ charges in the circumstances set out in Section I of Part 45.
(k)     ‘funding arrangement’ means an arrangement where a person has –
(i)     entered into a conditional fee agreement or a collective conditional fee agreement which provides for a success fee within the meaning of section 58(2) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 19901;
(ii)     taken out an insurance policy to which section 29 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (recovery of insurance premiums by way of costs) applies; or
(iii)     made an agreement with a membership organisation to meet that person’s legal costs;
(l)     ‘percentage increase’ means the percentage by which the amount of a legal representative’s fee can be increased in accordance with a conditional fee agreement which provides for a success fee;
(m)     ‘insurance premium’ means a sum of money paid or payable for insurance against the risk of incurring a costs liability in the proceedings, taken out after the event that is the subject matter of the claim;
(n)     ‘membership organisation’ means a body prescribed for the purposes of section 30 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (recovery where body undertakes to meet costs liabilities);
(o)     ‘additional liability’ means the percentage increase, the insurance premium, or the additional amount in respect of provision made by a membership organisation, as the case may be;
(p)     ‘free of charge’ has the same meaning as in section 194(10) of the Legal Services Act 2007;
(q)     ‘pro bono representation’ means legal representation provided free of charge; and
(r)     ‘the prescribed charity’ has the same meaning as in section 194(8) of the Legal Services Act 2007.
(2)     The costs to which Parts 44 to 48 apply include –
(a)     the following costs where those costs may be assessed by the court –
(i)     costs of proceedings before an arbitrator or umpire;
(ii)     costs of proceedings before a tribunal or other statutory body; and
(iii)     costs payable by a client to his solicitor; and
(b)     costs which are payable by one party to another party under the terms of a contract, where the court makes an order for an assessment of those costs.
(3)     Where advocacy or litigation services are provided to a client under a conditional fee agreement, costs are recoverable under Parts 44 to 48 notwithstanding that the client is liable to pay his legal representative's fees and expenses only to the extent that sums are recovered in respect of the proceedings, whether by way of costs or otherwise.
(4)     In paragraph (3), the reference to a conditional fee agreement is to an agreement which satisfies all the conditions applicable to it by virtue of section 58 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 19902.
This Rule is referred to in: Part 07 (7.2), Part 08 (8.2), (8.3), Part 15 (15.6), Part 16 (16.2), Part 21 (21.12), (21.12), Part 42 (42.2), Part 44 (44.3A), Part 45 (45.15), (45.15), (45.21), (45.23), (45.24), Part 46 (46.3), Part 74 (74.13), PDP 26 (2.1), PDP 43 (2.1), (6.2), PDP 44 (22.3), PDP 48 (57.8), Protocols PD (4A.1), pd_pre-action_conduct (2.1), Guide to Summary Assessment of Costs (74), SCCO costs guide - Section 19 (19.1), (19.2), SCCO costs guide - Section 2 (2.1), Agassi v Robinson [59], Atack v Grecham [3], BA v British Coal Corporation [33], [33], Bensusan v Freedman [37], Callery v Gray (No 2) [73], Callery v Gray HL [84], Callery v Gray [27], Crosbie v Munroe [33], Halloran v Delaney [9], King v Telegraph [78], Ku v Liverpool City Council [41], Leigh v Michelin Tyre Plc [4], Re Claims Direct Test Cases (CA) [24], [25], Re Claims Direct Test Cases [13], [13].
This Rule is referred to in the following SIs: Civil Procedure (Amendment No 3) Rules 2000 (11), (21), (44), Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2003 (Notes), (Notes), Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2004 (11), (15), (15), Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2003 (3), (Notes), Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2005 (25), (25), (55), (55), Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2003 (10), (19), (19), (19), Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2001 (41), (41), (43), Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2001 (14), Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2002 (36), Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2007 (22), (22), Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (22), (44), Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (23), (6), Civil Procedure Amendment Rules 2004 (21), (21), (21).
""Supreme Court" deleted from before "Costs Office" in Rule 43.2(1)(d)(iv) w/e from 1 October 2009,
"Senior Courts" substituted for "Supreme Court" in Rule 43.2(1)(b) w/e from 1 October 2009,
Definition of "costs officer" in Rule 43.2(1)(c) and "authorised costs officer" in 43.2(1)(d) modified in relation to applications to Court of ection by Court of ection Rules 2001,
Minor amendments made and new Paragraph (2) added to Rule 43.2 w/e from 2 June 2003,
Modification to sub-para (1)(j) w/e from 6 October 2003,
Para (ba) inserted in Rule 43.2(1) w/e from 1 October 2009,
Rule 43.2 amended with effect from 26 March 2001,
Text omitted in Rule 43.2(1)(n) w/e from 1 October 2008,
Text substituted in Rule 43.2(1)(e), Rule 43.2(1)(k)(iii) and Rule 43.2(1)(o) w/e from 1 October 2008,
Words "as such" omitted from Rule 43.2(1)(e) w/e from 1 October 2009.
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Meaning of summary assessment
43.3   

‘Summary assessment’ means the procedure by which the court, when making an order about costs, orders payment of a sum of money instead of fixed costs or ‘detailed assessment’.

This Rule is referred to in: PDP 43 (3.1), Guide to Summary Assessment of Costs (74), ABCI v Banque Franco-Tunisienne [91], Gregory v Turner [36].
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Meaning of detailed assessment
43.4   

‘Detailed assessment’ means the procedure by which the amount of costs is decided by a costs officer in accordance with Part 47.

This Rule is referred to in: PDP 43 (3.4).
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Footnotes

1. 1990 c. 41. Section 58 was substituted by section 27 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 with effect from 1st April 2000 (the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2000, S.I. 2000/774 and the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Transitional Provisions) Order 2000, S.I. 2000/900). Return to footnote 1
2. 1990 c.41, as substituted by s.27(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c.22). Return to footnote 2
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