AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS (SOLICITORS’ COSTS) RULES

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 5 of 1969

	The purpose of the Court of Petty Sessions (Solicitors’ Costs) Rules is to introduce a revised scale of professional costs in relation to proceedings commenced by ordinary summons in the Court of Petty Sessions to meet the increase from $400 to $1000 in the civil jurisdiction of the Court as from 1 July 1969.

	The scale was last revised in 1965.