A 246
CAP. 4]
[Subsidiary]
Item
The Rules of the Supreme Court-Order 62 [1988 Ed.
Particulars
(ii) Witnesses: interviewing and corresponding with witnesses and potential witnesses, taking and preparing proofs of evidence and, where appropriate, arranging attendance at Court, including issue of subpoena;
(iii) Expert evidence: obtaining and considering reports or advice from experts and plans, photographs and models; where appropriate arranging their attendance at Court, including issue of subpoena;
(iv) Inspections: inspecting any property or place material to the proceedings;
(v) Searches and Inquiries: making searches in Government Registries and elsewhere for relevant documents;
(vi) Special damages: obtaining details of special damages and making or obtaining any relevant calculations;
(vii) Other parties: attending upon and corresponding with other parties or their solicitors;
(viii) Discovery: perusing, considering or collating documents for affidavit or list of documents; attending to inspect or produce for inspection any documents required to be produced or inspected by order of the Court or by virtue of Order 24;
(ix) Documents: drafting, perusing, considering and collating any relevant documents (including pleadings, affidavits, cases and instructions to and advice from counsel, orders and judgments) and any law involved;
(x) Negotiations: work done in connection with negotiations with a view to settlement;
(xi) Attendances; attendances at Court (whether in Court or chambers) for the hearing of any summons or other application, on examination of any witness, on the trial or hearing of a cause or matter, on any appeal and on delivery of any judgment; attendances on counsel in conference, and any other necessary attendances;
(xii) Interest: where relevant the calculation of interest on damages; and
(xiii) Notices: preparation and service of miscellaneous notices, including notices to witnesses to attend court; and
(b) the general care and conduct of the proceedings.
PART II
GENERAL
Charges
Discretionary costs
1. (1) Where in the foregoing provisions of this Schedule there is entered in the third column against any item specified in the second column an upper and a lower sum of money, the amount of costs to be allowed in respect of that item shall (subject to any order of the Court fixing the costs to be allowed) be in the discretion of the taxing master, within the limits of the sums so entered.
(2) In exercising his discretion under this paragraph or under rule 32(2) in relation to any item, the taxing master shall have regard to all relevant circumstances, and in particular to--
(a) the complexity of the item or of the cause or matter in which it arises and the difficulty or novelty of the questions involved;
(b) the skill, specialized knowledge and responsibility required of, and the time and labour expended by, the solicitor or counsel;
(c) the number and importance of the documents (however brief) prepared or perused;