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Scottish Civil Litigation Expenses: Principles, Taxation Procedure, Counsel/Expert Fees, Additional Charges, QOCS and Anticipated Reforms

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Practice notes

This Practice Note explores the regime for judicial expenses and taxation in general civil litigation across Scotland.

For guidance on:

How civil claims are funded in Scotland, see Practice Note: Funding Scottish civil litigation
The closest equivalent procedure in England and Wales, see, for example:
- Principles of Costs recovery—overview
- Costs budgeting and costs management—overview
- Fixed costs—overview
- Costs orders—overview
- Security for costs—overview
- Summary assessment—overview
- Detailed assessment—overview
- Discontinuance and costs—overview
which, in turn, link through to more detailed guidance on various aspects of civil litigation costs in England and Wales

Note: this Practice Note does not cover expenses in the Supreme Court, which are governed by the Supreme Court Rules. For further guidance, see Practice Note: Supreme Court—costs, fees and funding—on or after 2 December 2024.

Key:

CL(EGP)(S)A 2018—Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 (often called the ‘Civil Litigation, etc Act 2018’)
CR(S)A 2014—Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
OCR—Sheriff Court Ordinary Cause Rules 1993
RCS—Rules of the Court of Session 1994
SACR—Sheriff Appeal Court Rules 2021
Taylor Report—Review of Expenses and Funding of Civil Litigation in Scotland

What are judicial expenses in Scottish civil litigation?...

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Tim Edward

BTO Solicitors LLP

Tim Edward qualified as a solicitor in Scotland in 1990. He is currently a Disputes Partner at BTO Solicitors LLP, having joined them in November 2023. Prior to that, he practised as a Dispute Resolution lawyer with MBM Commercial LLP for three years and Maclay Murray & Spens LLP for 27 years and was a partner of that firm from 1996 to 2017 when the firm merged with Dentons UKME LLP. He qualified as a solicitor advocate in 1999, obtaining extended rights of audience in the Court of Session, Scotland. His practice has covered the areas of corporate and insolvency disputes, professional negligence and shipping law. He was a member of the Law Society of Scotland's Pursuer's Advisory Panel from 2002 to 2014 pursuing negligence claims against solicitors and the Law Society of Scotland's Master Policy Panel from 2014 to 2017...

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