Magistrates’ Court (Fees and Costs in Civil Proceedings) Rules (Statutory Instrument 48 of 1960)
Magistrates’ Court (Fees and Costs in Civil Proceedings) Rules, 2020 (Statutory Instrument 17 of 2020)
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Magistrates’ Court (Fees and Costs in Civil Proceedings)
Rules
Statutory Instrument 48 of 1960
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Commenced on 4 July 1960
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[Amended by Magistrates' Court (Fees and Costs in Civil Proceedings) (Amendment) Rules, 2014 (Statutory Instrument 15 of 2014) on 24 February 2014]
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[Repealed by Magistrates’ Court (Fees and Costs in Civil Proceedings) Rules, 2020 (Statutory Instrument of 2020) on 10 February 2020]
These rules may be cited as the Magistrates’ Court (Fees and Costs in Civil Proceedings) Rules. In these rules unless the context otherwise requires the words and expressions used shall have the meanings ascribed to them in rule 2 of the Magistrates’ Court (Civil Procedure) Rules. The several fees specified in the First Schedule to these rules shall be payable in the office of the clerk of the court on civil proceedings in the court. Such fees shall be paid in the first instance by the party on whose behalf such proceeding is to be taken, on or before such proceeding. The advocacy fees to be allowed as between party and party and included in the judgment in civil proceedings in the court shall be in the discretion of the court but shall not exceed the scale set out in the Second Schedule to these rules. [rule 4A was inserted by SI 15 of 2014 with effect from 24 February 2014] Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the witnesses Tariff Act and in rules of court made thereunder, there shall be paid to witnesses summoned in civil case in the court the same expenses and allowances as would be payable to such witnesses if they had been summoned in a criminal case.1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Court and process servers’ fees
4. Advocate’s fees
4A. Disbursements
5. Witnesses’ fees