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Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999
sec.738Written reasons for decision
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### sec.738 Written reasons for decision
Within 21 days after receiving a copy of a cost assessor’s certificate of assessment, a party may make a written request to the costs assessor for reasons for any decision included in the certificate.
If a costs assessor receives a request under subrule (1) , the costs assessor must—
within 21 days give written reasons for the decision to each of the parties who participated in the costs assessment; and
give a copy of the written reasons to the registry of the court in which the certificate was filed.
A party requesting reasons must pay the costs assessor’s reasonable costs of preparing the reasons and those costs form part of the party’s costs in any subsequent review.
The court may publish written reasons in the way it considers appropriate.
The reasons may be published on the Queensland Courts website.
r 738 sub 2007 SL No. 315 s 10
amd 2013 SL No. 289 s 25
(sec.738-ssec.1) Within 21 days after receiving a copy of a cost assessor’s certificate of assessment, a party may make a written request to the costs assessor for reasons for any decision included in the certificate.
(sec.738-ssec.2) If a costs assessor receives a request under subrule (1) , the costs assessor must— within 21 days give written reasons for the decision to each of the parties who participated in the costs assessment; and give a copy of the written reasons to the registry of the court in which the certificate was filed.
(sec.738-ssec.3) A party requesting reasons must pay the costs assessor’s reasonable costs of preparing the reasons and those costs form part of the party’s costs in any subsequent review.
(sec.738-ssec.4) The court may publish written reasons in the way it considers appropriate. The reasons may be published on the Queensland Courts website.
- (a) within 21 days give written reasons for the decision to each of the parties who participated in the costs assessment; and
- (b) give a copy of the written reasons to the registry of the court in which the certificate was filed.