Schedule 1 Costs Disclosure Notice – Given under the (LPA) Legal Profession Act 2004 From: [name of barrister] To: [Client] Date: The legal services to which this Costs Disclosure Notice relates are the following: [Describe the proposed legal services. Remember that fresh disclosure will be required if legal services are to be provided outside the scope of what is described.] I propose that my legal costs will be calculated in accordance with the accompanying Costs Agreement document, subject to any fixed costs provision that applies and cannot be excluded. [Use whichever alternative applies:] No fixed costs provision applies to any of those legal costs. OR The following fixed costs provisions apply or may potentially apply: [Identify fixed costs provisions and what costs they apply costs is defined in to. ‘Fixed provision’ LPA s. 4. It includes maximum costs as well as fixed scale costs. Special considerations apply to some types of fixed costs provisions. limitations in Part E.g., 3.2 Division 9 can be excluded by agreement and disclosure complying with s. 339 and LPR 2005 cl. 116, and limitations under the Motor Accidents Compensation Regulation can be excluded by agreement and disclosure complying with cl. 11 but these 2005 – are not situations that readily lend themselves to direct access work by barristers, and no form or precedent is offered here.] The LPA gives you the right to be notified in writing of any substantial change to anything included in a disclosure by me under LPA Part 3.2, Division 3 as soon as is reasonably practicable after I become aware of the change. Estimate of legal costs: The following is an estimate only. Actual costs may differ considerably from the estimate. [EITHER: My estimate of the total legal costs for my legal services referred to in 1 above is $ . OR: It is not reasonably practicable to give a single estimate of costs. A range of estimates of the total legal costs for my legal services referred to in 1 above is $ to $ . On present indications, the major variables that will affect the calculation of those costs are: ] . Details of proposed billing intervals are in the Costs Agreement. Interest is chargeable on overdue fees as specified in the Costs Agreement. The rate is specified in LPA s 321(4) (Reserve Bank of Australia target cash rate as at the date of the bill plus 2 percentage points).
Schedule 1 – Costs Disclosure Notice Given under the Legal Profession Act 2004 (LPA) From: [name of barrister] To: [Client] Date: The legal services to which this Costs Disclosure Notice relates are the following: [Describe the proposed legal services. Remember that fresh disclosure will be required if legal services are to be provided outside the scope of what is described.] I propose that my legal costs will be calculated in accordance with the accompanying Costs Agreement document, subject to any fixed costs provision that applies and cannot be excluded. [Use whichever alternative applies:] No fixed costs provision applies to any of those legal costs. OR The following fixed costs provisions apply or may potentially apply: [Identify fixed costs provisions and what costs they apply to. ‘Fixed costs provision’ is defined in LPA s. 4. It includes maximum costs as well as fixed scale costs. Special considerations apply to some types of fixed costs provisions. E.g., limitations in Part 3.2 Division 9 can be excluded by agreement and disclosure complying with s. 339 and LPR 2005 cl. 116, and limitations under the Motor Accidents Compensation Regulation 2005 can be excluded by agreement and disclosure complying with cl. 11 – but these are not situations that readily lend themselves to direct access work by barristers, and no form or precedent is offered here.] The LPA gives you the right to be notified in writing of any substantial change to anything included in a disclosure by me under LPA Part 3.2, Division 3 as soon as is reasonably practicable after I become aware of the change. Estimate of legal costs: The following is an estimate only. Actual costs may differ considerably from the estimate. [EITHER: My estimate of the total legal costs for my legal services referred to in 1 above is $ . OR: It is not reasonably practicable to give a single estimate of costs. A range of estimates of the total legal costs for my legal services referred to in 1 above is $ to $ . On present indications, the major variables that will affect the calculation of those costs are: ] . Details of proposed billing intervals are in the Costs Agreement. Interest is chargeable on overdue fees as specified in the Costs Agreement. The rate is specified in LPA s 321(4) (Reserve Bank of Australia target cash rate as at the date of the bill plus 2 percentage points).
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