> ### PRACTICE DIRECTION

> ### PARTS 43 to 48 - PRACTICE DIRECTION ABOUT COSTS

> ### See also Civil Procedure Rules

> ### SUPPLEMENTING PARTS 43 TO 48 OF THE CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES

> ### INTRODUCTION

> 1. | This Practice Direction supplements Parts 43 to 48 of the Civil Procedure Rules. It applies to all proceedings to which those Parts apply.
> 2. | Section III of the Directions Relating to Part 48 deals with transitional provisions affecting proceedings about costs which were pending before 26 April 1999.
> 3. | Attention is drawn to the powers to make orders about costs conferred on the Supreme Court and any county court by Section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981.
> 4. | In these Directions: "counsel" means a barrister or other person with a right of audience in relation to all proceedings in the High Court or in the County Courts in which he is instructed to act. "solicitor" means a solicitor of the Supreme Court or other person with a right of audience in relation to proceedings, who is conducting the claim or defence (as the case may be) on behalf of a party to the proceedings and, where the context admits, includes a patent agent.
> 5. | In respect of any document which is required by these Directions to be signed by a party or his legal representative the Practice Direction supplementing Part 22 will apply as if the document in question was a statement of truth. (The Practice Direction supplementing Part 22 makes provision for cases in which a party is a child, a patient or a company or other corporation and cases in which a document is signed on behalf of a partnership).

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