Section 27.14(2)

The court may not order a party to pay a sum to another party in respect of that other party’s costs, fees and expenses, including those relating to an appeal, except— the fixed costs attributable to issuing the claim, calculated in accordance with Table 2 in Practice Direction 45; ... in proceedings which included a claim for an injunction or an order for specific performance a sum not exceeding the amount specified in Practice Direction 27A for legal advice and assistance relating to that claim; any court fees paid by that other party; expenses which a party or witness has reasonably incurred in travelling to and from a hearing or in staying away from home for the purposes of attending a hearing; a sum not exceeding the amount specified in Practice Direction 27A for any loss of earnings or loss of leave by a party or witness due to attending a hearing or to staying away from home for the purposes of attending a hearing; a sum not exceeding the amount specified in Practice Direction 27A for an expert’s fees; ... such further costs as the court may assess by the summary procedure and order to be paid by a party who has behaved unreasonably ; ... the applicable Stage 1 and, where relevant, the Stage 2 fixed costs in Table 10 and Table 11 in Practice Direction 45 where— the claim was within the scope of the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims in Road Traffic Accidents (“the RTA Protocol”) or the Pre-action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury (Employers’ Liability and Public Liability) Claims (‘the EL/PL Protocol’); the claimant reasonably believed that the claim was valued at more than the small claims track limit in accordance with paragraph 4.1(4) of the relevant Protocol; and the defendant admitted liability under the process set out in the relevant Protocol; but the defendant did not pay those Stage 1 and, where relevant, Stage 2 fixed costs ; and in an appeal, the cost of any approved transcript reasonably incurred.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-08-15