Family Law Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1993

No. 51 1

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Family Law Rules 2(Amendment)

WE, Judges within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975, make the following Rules of Court under that Act.

 Dated 16 April 1993.

 

 ALAN J. BARBLETT

 J. EDWARD ELLIS

 K. A. MURRAY

 E. R. BAKER

 N. J. BUCKLEY

 T. H. McGOVERN

 T. E. LINDENMAYER

 B. ROSS-JONES

 RODERICK JOSKE

 JOSEPHINE M. MAXWELL

 J. T. GUN

 GEOFFREY I. WALSH

 ADRIAN SMITHERS

 W. B. TREYVAUD

 EDWARD BUTLER

 RICHARD W. GEE

 D. BULBECK

 M. A. RENAUD

 J. WILCZEK

 W. ROURKE

 H. J. BURTON

 MARY JANE M. LAWRIE

 A. GRAHAM

 JOHN COHEN

 C. A. MOORE

 I. R. COLEMAN

 P. F. A. HILTON

 M. A. HANNON

Judges of the Family Court

of Australia

IAN LOUGHNAN

Principal Registrar

Family Court of Australia

 

 I. W. P. McCALL

 ALAN J. BARBLETT

 N. TOLCON

 MICHAEL H. HOLDEN

Judges of the Family Court

of Western Australia

C. E. MARTIN

Registrar

Family Court of Western Australia

  

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Rules commence on 1 May 1993.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Family Law Rules are amended as set out in these Rules.

3.   Schedule 2—Scale of Costs (Including Counsel’s Fees)

3.1   Omit the Schedule, substitute:

“SCHEDULE 2

Order 38, rules 3 and 13

 

 SCALE OF COSTS (INCLUDING COUNSEL’S FEES)

 

Item

No. Matter in respect of which charge is made Charge

 

PART 1—COSTS FOR WORK DONE

 $

1 Drawing documents

 (a) court documents............................................ 26.35 per

 page

 (b) other documents............................................ 9.15 per

 folio

 

2 Engrossing documents

 (a) court documents............................................ 9.00 per

 page

 (b) other documents............................................ 3.40 per

 folio

 

 Drafting and typing

 (a) short letter (up to 1 folio in length)............. 12.75

 (b) circular letter (up to 1 folio in length)........ 5.30

 (c) any other letter............................................... 10.70 per

 folio

4 Telephone attendance

 (a) continuing up to 5 minutes........................... 9.15

 (b) continuing for more than 5 minutes............ At the rate

 of $110.50

 per hour

 

5 Perusal of documents

 (a) for each page.................................................. 12.50

 (b) fewer than 30 folios...................................... 4.30 per

 folio

SCHEDULE—continued

Item

No. Matter in respect of which charge is made Charge

  $

  

 (c) 30 or more folios........................................... An amount

 at the

discretion

of the taxing  officer

6 Scanning of documents (where perusal is

 not necessary)

 (a) fewer than 10 pages....................................... 5.05 per

 page

 (b) 10 or more pages........................................... An amount

 at the

 discretion

 of the

 taxing

 officer

 

7 Preparation of the appeal papers in a

 solicitor’s office.................................................. An amount

 at the

discretion

of the

taxing

officer

 

8 Photographic reproduction, carbon or

 

other

 copy of a document.............................. 1.10 per

 page

 

8a Transmitting urgent and necessary written

 material by means of the solicitor’s own

 facsimile machine............................................... 5.30 for the

 first page,

2.10

for each  subsequent  page

SCHEDULE—continued

Item

No. Matter in respect of which charge is made Charge

 $

 

 (NOTE:   STD and ISD transmission fees may

     be claimed as a disbursement properly

  incurred.)

 

8b Receiving written material by means of the

 solicitor’s own facsimile machine.................... 1.10 per

 page

 

9 Time reasonably spent by a solicitor on work

 

requiring the

 skill of a solicitor, other than

 work referred to in item 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

 8a, 8b or 10.......................................................... At the rate

 of $110.50

 per hour

 

10 Time reasonably spent by a solicitor or by a

 clerk of a solicitor on work other than work

 referred to in item 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8a, 8b

  or 9 ............................................................... At the rate

 of $72.15

 per hour

 

PART 2—COUNSEL’S FEES

 

11 Chamber work, including preparing or settling

 any necessary document, opinion, advice

 or evidence, and any reading fee

 (if allowed)........................................................... 125-180

 per hour

 or part

 of an hour

 

12 Conferences (including court appointed

  conferences), where necessary........................ 125-180

 per hour

 or part

 of an hour

SCHEDULE—continued

Item

No. Matter in respect of which charge is made Charge

 $

 

13 Short appearances (return day, interlocutory

 application, etc.).................................................. 300-530

 

14 Short defended list hearings (1 day)...................... 420-900

 

15 General defended list hearings 900-1,330

 per day

 

16 Reserved judgement................................................ 125-180

 per hour

 or part

 of an hour”

  

4.Application

4.1   The amendments effected by rule 3 apply to work done and services performed on or after 1 May 1993.

4.2 The Schedule repealed by rule 3 continues to apply, despite its repeal, to work done and services performed on or after 2 March 1992 and before 1 May 1993.

 

NOTES

 

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 April 1993.

2. Statutory Rules 1984 No. 425 as amended by 1985 No. 341; 1986 Nos. 6 and 193; 1987 Nos. 15, 74 and 222; 1988 Nos. 9, 15, 16, 46, 166 and 236; 1989 Nos..49, 65, 175, 201, 266 and 331; 1990 Nos. 20, 74, 348 and 474; 1991 Nos. 122, 414, 475 and 476; 1992 Nos. 8, 45, 161 and 304.