Law of Costs

Law of Costs 5th edition comprehensively addresses the legislation, court rules and case law pertaining to the law of costs in each Australian jurisdiction, as well as federally, in both the lawyer-client and party-party contexts. The authoritative nature of this work is evidenced by its previous editions being judicially cited on hundreds of occasions. It remains the only dedicated scholarly treatment of Australian costs law in book form.

Features

• brings the case law up to date
• reflects, from a costs standpoint, the wholesale alterations to civil procedure in South Australia
• emanating from the jurisdictionâs adoption of the Uniform Civil Rules 2020
• covers the substantive changes to the Northern Territoryâs rules on settlement offers

• Burgess, Abandoning timesheets: Some lessons learned: CPD, 2016
• Legal Costs NSW, Legal Costs Victoria and Legal Costs South Australia (loose-leaf and online)Legg, Resolving Civil Disputes, 2016
• Zuckerman et al, Zuckerman on Australian Civil Procedure, 2018