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The County Court Rules 1981

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APPENDIX BFIXED COSTS

PART IIJUDGMENTS

Directions

Where an amount in respect of solicitors' charges has been entered on the summons under Part I of this Appendix and judgment is entered or given in the circumstances mentioned in one of the paragraphs in column 1 of the following Table, the amount to be included in the judgment in respect of the plaintiff's solicitor's charges shall, subject to Order 38, rule 3(4), be the amount entered on the summons together with the amount shown in column 2 of the Table under the sum of money by reference to which the amount entered on the summons was fixed.

Where judgment is entered or given for a sum less than the amount claimed or for the delivery of goods of which the value or the balance of the hire purchase price is a sum less than the amount claimed, the foregoing paragraph shall, unless the court otherwise directs, have effect as if the amount entered on the summons had been fixed by reference to that sum.

Fixed Costs on Judgments

Column 2
Sum of money
Column 1ABC
Exceeding £25 but not exceeding £600 Exceeding £600 but not exceeding £3,000 Exceeding £3,000
£££
(a) Where judgment is entered in a default action in default of defence6·0010·0011·00
(b) Where judgment is entered on the defendant's admission and the plaintiff's acceptance of his proposal as to mode of payment9·0020·0022·00
(c) Where judgment is entered on an admission delivered by the defendant and the court's decision is given as to the date of payment or instalments by which payment is to be made13·0025·0030·00

(d) Where judgment is given in a fixed date action for—

(i) recovery of a liquidated sum of money; or

(ii) delivery of goods; or

(iii) possession of land suspended on payment of arrears of rent, whether claimed or not, in addition to current rent,

and the defendant has neither delivered a defence, admission or counterclaim, nor otherwise denied liability

18·0028·0034·00
Exceeding £500 but not exceeding £3,000 Exceeding £3,000
(e) Where summary judgment is given under Order 9, rule 14£43£49

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