Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00057:front:0:p59
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00057
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Character Range: 139439–142087

be disallowed; or
 (b) direct a Taxing Officer to examine the costs incurred in a proceeding or in taking a step in the proceeding and to disallow such costs as the Taxing Officer finds to have been improperly, unreasonably or negligently incurred.
56.12.2  Where costs are disallowed pursuant to rule 56.12.1, the party whose costs are disallowed shall pay to each other party the costs incurred by those parties in relation to the proceeding or step in respect of which the party's costs have been disallowed.
56.12.3  Without limiting the generality of rules 56.12.1 or 56.12.2, the Taxing Officer shall disallow any costs which the Taxing Officer finds to have been improperly, unreasonably or negligently incurred.

56.13  Costs of application for extension of time
56.13.1  Costs of an application for consent to an extension of time for taking any step in a proceeding are in the discretion of the Taxing Officer.
56.13.2  The Taxing Officer shall not allow the costs of more than one extension of time unless satisfied that the extension was necessary and could not, with due diligence, have been avoided.
56.13.3  The costs of an application to extend time shall not be allowed unless the party making the application has previously applied to the opposite party to consent to a sufficient extension of time and the opposite party has not consented, or the Taxing Officer considers that there was a good reason for not making application to the opposite party.

Part 57—Assessment, taxation and review of taxation

57.01  Assessment
57.01.1  A party filing a bill of costs for taxation may indorse on the bill a request that a Taxing Officer, in the absence of the parties and without making any determination of any individual item in the bill, make an estimate of the approximate amount of professional charges and disbursements that, in the opinion of the Taxing Officer, would be allowed if the bill of costs were taxed.
57.01.2  If a party has indorsed a bill with a request under rule 57.01.1:
 (a) the party filing the bill must, within 7 days after filing the bill, serve the bill and each of the documents referred to in rule 54.02.4 on each other party to the taxation; and
 (b) the party filing the bill must, within 7 days after filing the bill, file an affidavit deposing to the time and manner of the service required by paragraph (a); and
 (c) the Taxing Officer must not make the estimate requested until at least 14 days after the bill is filed.
57.01.3  The Taxing Officer will notify each party to the taxation, in writing, of the estimate made under rule 57.01.1.
57.01.4  Unless, within 14 days of the Taxing Officer