Under the WA Supreme Court scale of costs, the hours column does not impose an independent cap on recoverable costs. Where a junior practitioner performs work and takes more hours than specified in the scale for a given item, the costs are recoverable provided the total dollar amount does not exceed the maximum dollar amount for that item. The Court of Appeal in Kidd provisionally favoured this construction but did not decide the point.
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