SUPPLEMENT NO. 1, JULY 16. 1948.
(3) Subject to the provisions of any rules of court upon ery taxation of costs with respect to any contentious business, the taxing officer may-
(a) allow interest at such rate and from such time as he thinks just on moneys disbursed by the solicitor for the client, and on moneys of the client in the hands of, and improperly retained by, the solicitor;
(b) in determining the remuneration of the solicitor have regard to, the skill, labour and responsibility involved in the business done by him.
General Provisions as to Remuneration.
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58. (1) The jurisdiction of the court to make orders for the Power to delivery by a solicitor of a bill of costs and for the delivery up of, court to order or otherwise in relation to, any deeds, documents or papers in his delivery of possession, custody or power, is hereby declared to extend to cases deeds. in which no business has been done by him in the court.
bill and
22 and 23 Geo. 5
(2) In this section and in sections 59, 60 and 61, c.37, s.64. "solicitor" includes the executors, administrators and assignees of the solicitor in question.
c.37, s.65.
59. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, no action Action to shall be brought to recover any costs due to a solicitor until one recover costs month after a bill thereof has been delivered in accordance with 22 and 23 the requirements of this section: Provided that, if there is probable.
Geo. 5 cause for believing that the party chargeable with the costs is about to quit the Colony, or become a bankrupt, or to compound with his creditors or to do any other act which would tend to prevent or delay the solicitor obtaining payment the court may, notwithstanding that one month has not expired from the delivery of the bill, order that the solicitor be at liberty to commence an action to recover his costs and may order those costs to be taxed.
(2) The said requirements are as follows:
(a) the bill must be signed by the solicitor or, if the costs are due to a firm, one of the partners of that firm, either in his own name or in the name of the firm, or be enclosed in, or accompanied by, a letter which is so signed and refers to a bill, and
(b) the bill must be delivered to the party to be charged therewith, either personally or by being sent to him by post to, or left for him at, his place of business, dwelling house or last known place of abode;
and where a bill is proved to have been delivered in compliance with those requirements, it shall not be necessary in the first instance for the solicitor to prove the contents of the bill and it shall be presumed, until the contrary is shown, to be a bill bona fide complying with this Ordinance.
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