Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00057:front:0:p57
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00057
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 134596–137358

Taxing Officer thinks fit.
56.04.2  The allowances for instructions for and preparing an affidavit include all attendances on the deponent to settle and read over the affidavit.

56.05  Copies
  The Taxing Officer shall allow only the copying of such documents or parts of documents accompanying briefs as the Taxing Officer considers necessary for the proper instruction of counsel or for use at the hearing.

56.06  Reading or examining documents
56.06.1  Fees for reading or examining documents do not apply where the same solicitor acts for both parties.
56.06.2  The fees for reading or examining any document are in the discretion of the Taxing Officer, but no allowance is to be made unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Taxing Officer that there were good and sufficient reasons for reading or examining the document.

56.07  Agency matters
56.07.1  The Taxing Officer may make special allowance in respect of agency correspondence that is special and extensive.
56.07.2  The Taxing Officer shall allow the necessary expense in agency matters of postage, carriage and transmission of documents.

56.08  Orders
  The Taxing Officer may make such allowance as is reasonable in respect of the preparation and settling of judgments and orders.

56.09  Counsel
56.09.1  The Taxing Officer shall allow such costs as the Taxing Officer considers reasonable for procuring the advice of counsel and for preparing such documents as the Taxing Officer thinks proper to be prepared by counsel.
56.09.2  Where a practitioner acts as both barrister and solicitor, or as counsel, instructed by another practitioner in the same firm or other legal office acting as solicitor, the Taxing Officer shall, in cases where a fee would have been allowed to independent counsel, allow to the practitioner such sum as a counsel's fee for preparing any document or appearing as counsel as the Taxing Officer considers reasonable in the circumstances.
56.09.3  Subject to rules 56.09.4, 56.09.5 and 56.09.6, no disbursement, whether as a fee to counsel or otherwise, shall be allowed unless:
 (a) it has been paid before the filing of the bill of costs; and
 (b) unconditional payment of the disbursement is proved to the satisfaction of the Taxing Officer.
56.09.4  Where a party is represented as counsel by a Law Officer or by an employee of the Crown, and the party is unable to vouch payment of a fee to that practitioner, the Taxing Officer may, in cases where a fee would have been allowed to counsel, allow to the party such sum as counsel's fee for preparing any document or for appearing as counsel as the Taxing Officer considers reasonable in the circumstances.
56.09.5  Where a party is represented by counsel appearing without fee, and the party is unable to