Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session Amendment No. 3 ) (Fees of Solicitors) 1998
This Act of Sederunt amends the Tables of Fees in Chapter 42 of the Rules of the Court of Session 1994, 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, where the copy is required to be lodged or sent in pursuance of any of rules 4.7, 22.1 and 22.3, would be set from time to time by the Auditor, who might make separate provision for different sets of circumstances. Fees for copying in any other case 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 about 43.3 %. The last increase was in the Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session Amendment No. 1) (Fees of Solicitors) 1996 (S.I. 1996/237).