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Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 Amendment) (Shorthand Writers' Fees) 1995


Published: 1995-04-06

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Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 1023 (S.86)

COURT OF SESSION, SCOTLAND
Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 Amendment) (Shorthand Writers' Fees) 1995

Made
6th April 1995

Coming into force
1st May 1995

The Lords of Council and Session, under and by virtue of the powers conferred on them by section 5 of the Court of Session Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, do hereby enact and declare:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 Amendment) (Shorthand Writers' Fees) 1995 and shall come into force on 1st May 1995.

(2) This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.

Amendment of Table of Fees

2.  In Chapter IV (Shorthand Writers) of the Table of Fees in rule 42.16 of the Rules of the Court of Session 1994(2), in the paragraphs specified in column 1 of the following table, for the figures set out in column 2 as applying to those paragraphs, there shall be substituted the figures set out in column 3 of that table; and the fees so substituted shall apply to work, for which those fees are chargeable, done on or after the date on which this Act of Sederunt comes into force:—

TABLE

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3

(paragraph) £
(old fees) £
(new fees) £

1 (minimum fee per day)
54.75
56.40

1 (per hour)
18.25
18.80

2(a)
3.90
4.00

(b)
4.70
4.85

(c)
0.30
0.31

Saving

3.  The fees set out in column 2 of the table in paragraph 2 above shall continue to apply to work done before this Act of Sederunt comes into force.

Hope of Craighead
Lord President, I.P.D.
Edinburgh,
6th April 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Act of Sederunt)
This Act of Sederunt amends Chapter IV of the Table of Fees in rule 42.16 of the Rules of the Court of Session 1994 by increasing the fees payable to shorthand writers in the Court of Session by about 3 per cent.


(1)
1988 c. 36; section 5 was amended by the Civil Evidence (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 32), section 2(3).

(2)
S.I. 1994/1443; to which there are no relevant amendments.