COURT COSTS.
At the E.M. Court, Baugiora, yesterday, Mr Holmes drew the attention of Mr Whitefoord, E.M., to the fact that in the cases in which partners of a firm were summoned in civil cases, the officers of the Court had charged double fees, not only double service fees, but double tees for hearing and judgment, and instanced a case in which, because he had sued a firm of partners, he hod to pay £3 for fees instead of only 30s. Section 27 of the Besident Magistrates’ Act, 1867, he pointed out did not render it necessary that two or the whole of the partners in a firm must be sued, but, “ when two or more persons were jointly answerable it shall be sufficient if any one of such persons be served with process, and judgment may be enforced against the person so served, notwithstanding others jointly liable might not have been served.” Mr Whitefoord stated that the system of charging double fees was brought about by the regulations and the auditors. He had represented the matter to the Minister for Justice, and a new scale of fees, which met this matter, would come into operation on August Ist.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1993, 14 July 1880, Page 2
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