Fees
| A lawyer agrees his/her fees with his client |
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| The repeatability of lawyer's costs |
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| Procedural cost indemnity was fixed on 1 March 2011 in the following way: |
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Article 1022 of the Code Judiciaire (Legal Code) fixed the arrangements for this lump sum intervention, called the "procedural cost indemnity" and in particular the fact that "at the request of one of the parties, possibly made upon questioning by the judge, the latter may, by specially justified decision, either reduce the indemnity or increase it, without however exceeding the maximum and minimum amounts provided for by the King. The judge will take account in his/her assessment of:
- the financial capacity of the losing party, to reduce the amount the indemnity;
- the complexity of the case;
- the contractual indemnities agreed for the party who won;
- the manifestly unreasonable character of the situation".
Besides this "procedural cost indemnity", the losing party must also reimburse the winning party for legal costs (for example, expert consultancy fees) as well as the costs stated by the party that won the case to bring the case to court (for example, the cost of a bailiff that must be engaged to issue the summons).
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