24.03
CurrentStay on non-payment of costs
Chapter 1General rules of procedure in civil proceedings
Part 4Local service of foreign judicial documents
24.03 Stay on non-payment of costs
Where a proceeding is dismissed for want of prosecution and the plaintiff is liable to pay the costs of the defendant of the proceeding and the plaintiff, before paying those costs, commences another proceeding for the same or substantially the same cause of action, the Court may by order stay the proceeding until those costs are paid.
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