Act of Sederunt (Fees of Solicitors in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment) 1998
This Act of Sederunt amends Schedule 1 (general regulations) to the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Solicitors in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment and Further Provisions) 1993 (S.I. 1993/3080), the main aim being to increase (by about 16.2%) the expenses recoverable by a successful party. It does so in two complementary respects. First, it provides that certain fees shall no longer be chargeable, viz. fees for copying in normal circumstances and additions to accounts of sums to cover posts and incidents. Fees for ‘copying would be chargeable only in circumstances which the Auditor considered exceptional or where papers which required to be copied were unusually numerous. Secondly, to allow for these changes and for inflation, the Act of Sederunt increases the remaining fees payable to solicitors (and recoverable from opponents) by between 28 % and 43.3 %. The last increase was in the Act of Sederunt (Fees of Solicitors in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment) 1996 (S.I. 1996/236).