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Joubert Kramer Weihmann Inc - Review of Taxation (3645/2022) [2024] ZAFSHC 375 (20 November 2024)
The High Court reviewed a taxation ruling and disallowed costs for 7,000 pages of discovered documents, finding them irrelevant to the exception and strike-out applications.
Havenga v Havenga and Others - Review of Taxation (3327/2021) [2023] ZAFSHC 418 (23 October 2023)
The High Court dismissed a Rule 48 review of taxation, holding that the taxing mistress properly exercised her discretion in allowing costs under the settlement resolution.
Lategan v Alcock and Another (58621/2010) [2019] ZAGPPHC 438 (9 September 2019)
The court found that the applicant failed to establish that the taxation of the Bill of Costs was erroneously granted. The evidence presented by the first respondent, including affidavits from the cost consultant, was uncontroverted due to the applicant's failure to file a replying affidavit. The court accepted that the Bill of Costs, including counsel's fees, was properly served on the applicant's attorneys prior to taxation. The applicant was absent at the taxation and did not object to the inclusion of counsel's fees. The court held that any challenge to the taxed items should have been ra…
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Louwrens v Mario Coetzee Attorneys (48248/2018) [2018] ZAGPPHC 576 (26 July 2018)
The court held that the applicant lawfully terminated her attorney’s mandate and was entitled to her complete file and originals, with costs on an attorney-and-client scale.
Wong v Ronald Bobroff and Partners Inc and Others (15/13402) [2016] ZAGPJHC 412 (5 February 2016)
The High Court held that the applicant’s claim had not prescribed, declared a contingency fee agreement invalid, and ordered an accounting and repayment.
Taxing Master of the High Court of South Africa (Bophuthatswana Provincial Division) v De Jager and Others (144/2007) [2008] ZANWHC 48 (11 December 2008)
The High Court held that a Taxing Master could tax a VAT invoice for litigious work and dismissed the review of the allocatur with costs.
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