Legal costs
44 Legal costs
The rules may prescribe scales of costs for the purposes of this section.
Subject to any express provision in the rules or a relevant Act, a legal practitioner must not, without the agreement in writing of his or her client, charge or seek to recover in respect of any proceedings in respect of which such scales apply an amount by way of costs in excess of the amount that is, after deduction of the GST payable in respect of it, equivalent to the amount allowable under the scales.
In this section—
GST means the tax payable under the GST law;
GST law means—
A New Tax System (Goods and Services
Tax) Act 1999 (Commonwealth); and
the related legislation of the Commonwealth dealing with the imposition of a tax on the supply of goods, services and other things.
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