20Notes

20  Notes

 20.1 Lawyer is defined in section 4 of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976.

 20.2 The rates specified at item 1.1 should not exceed the rates actually charged by the lawyer to the client. Accordingly, bills of costs should set out the hourly rate (or rates) actually charged by the lawyer.

 20.3 The charge for preparing documents (item 2) is inclusive of typing, printing, posting, faxing and emailing, and any other administrative task relating to the preparation or transmission of a document, by whatever means. There is to be no charge for such administrative tasks.

 20.4 There is no scale item for printing documents. Accordingly, litigants should not expect to recover the cost of this task.

 20.5 The word count for correspondence in items 2.2, 2.3, 3.2 and 3.3 excludes any signature block, disclaimer or similar wording.

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