Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) Where a bill of
costs contains detailed items, the legal practitioner must include a notice to
the person charged in the following form —
“
Within 30 days of receiving this account you may
require me by notice in writing to submit the bill of cost to a taxing officer
of the Supreme Court for review of the amount of costs charged to you, the
subject of this bill of costs.
”.
(2) The notice must
appear on the face page of each bill of costs in at least 10 point type size.
(3) A person charged
with a bill of costs that contains detailed items may —
(a)
serve upon the legal practitioner, within 30 days from the service of the
itemised bill, a written notice of intention to have the bill taxed; and
(b) upon
service of that notice, have the bill taxed by the taxing officer.