Guernsey Legal Resources

    Costs claimed in respect of “researching the law” in ordinary proceedings will normally be disallowed, as knowledge of the law is presumed to be part of the tools of the legal profession. In novel specialized proceedings, however—and the present proceedings were only the second judicial review proceedings ever to have been heard in Guernsey—the discretion in taxing given by r.7.1 of the Royal Court Costs and Fees Rules 2000 permits an allowance to be made for any extra “research” needed and also for the specialist knowledge and experience of the advocate whose costs are to be taxed.