Where a dispute arises regarding a bill of costs, the clients may, within 14 days of the bill of costs being provided, send the practitioner a statement in writing setting out the nature of the dispute.<\/p>\n
When the practitioner receives a statement, he is to take all reasonable and appropriate steps to attempt to resolve the matter informally. Where, having taken reasonable steps, he or she fails to do so, he is to inform the other party of the opinion.\u00a0 The time limit for references to adjudication is suspended during the attempt to settle by mediation or other informal means. Failure by a client to pay a bill of costs within the time period is not to be interpreted as formal communication of the existence of a dispute.<\/p>\n\n
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Duties of legal practitioners A legal practitioner shall not charge amounts in respect of legal costs in relation to contentious business specified as a percentage of the proportion of damage or other moneys that may be payable to his client, other than in debt collection matter. He may not purport to set legal costs to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,308],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}