CO129-518-11 Request for information regarding the levying of poundage on all monies paid into Supreme Court... 29-8-1929 - 14-12-1929 — Page 12

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are fees Nos. 13 and 16, which are paid on the trial

or hearing of an action or on entering judgment by

consent or admission or default.

These fees are

similarly graduated on a poundage basis.

When the County Court Fees Order was

It

prepared the main object of the framers of the Order

was to make the fees fair and reasonable in amount

and at the same time simple and intelligible.

was therefore desired to prescribe as few fees as possible consistent with the various kinds of pro-

ceedings in the Courts. In all actions in the

County Courts for debt the sum claimed, if recovered,

has to be paid into Court, and the accounting and

other work involved in the receipt and payment out of

such moneys was taken into consideration in fixing

the poundage rates for entering a plaint, for trial

It was con- or hearing, or on entering judgment.

sidered desirable to fix these fees at such rates as

would roughly provide for the cost of the subsequent