The Indemnity Principle of Taxation

The Indemnity Principle of Taxation

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Level: / Monday, 16 January 2017
2:30 pm – 5:45 pm
3 CPD points
HK$100
Intermediate level, for delegates who have some prior knowledge of the subject area / Venue :
Language: / Auditorium, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, No. 15 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
English
Course Objective:
Toprovide a general overview of costs procedure and law, with practical tips.
About the Course:
The seminar will cover the following issues:
  1. Entitlement to costs
  2. The indemnity principle of taxation
  3. Certification of compliance on bill of costs
  4. The approach
  5. Where to tax costs
  6. Time to tax costs
  7. Limitation O62 R22(7)
  8. Delay
  9. Penalty for Delay O62 R22(5)
  10. Interest on costs
  11. Taxation Procedure O62 R21 and PD14.3
  12. Taxing fee
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  1. Review O62 R33
  2. Interim Certificate O62 R17
  3. Scale of costs
  4. Hourly Rates
  5. Discretionary Costs: Factors affecting discretion
  6. Basis of Taxation
  7. Counsel’s fees
  8. Government Counsel
  9. Witness fees
  10. Sanctioned Offer/Sanctioned Payment: O62A
  11. What Particular Areas of Work Cannot be Recovered Inter Partes
  12. Good File Management for Taxation

About the Presenters:
Mr. Sean Frost, Sole Proprietor, Sean Frost & Co. (Hong Kong)
Mr. Alfonso Fung, Sole Proprietor, Alfonso Fung & Co.
Mr. Sean Frost has been the sole proprietor of Sean Frost & Co. (Hong Kong) since August 2007. He has been a law costs draftsman in Hong Kong since 2002. Before that he was a law costs draftsman in Somerset and London since 1991. He has extensive experience in civil and criminal taxation proceedings in the Court of Final Appeal, Court of Appeal, High Court and District Court. This includes preparing bills of costs, lists of objections, negotiating settlements and attending taxation hearings. He is also involved in preparing schedules of costs for taxations by various Arbitration tribunals. He is a Law Society approved law costs draftsman in Hong Kong.
Mr. Alfonso Fung, sole proprietor of Messrs. Alfonso Fung & Co., has been in practice as an approved law costs draftsman since 1984. A pioneer in his profession, Mr. Fung taught himself computer programming, developed and published a specialist law costing software as early as 1986. The software was subsequently licensed to the Hong Kong Government for use in the Legal Aid Department. Mr. Fung has extensive experience in taxation of complicated and heavy cases on all levels of courts. He has been recognised in Who’s Who of the Law Hong Kong & China (1998-2000) and featured in the article “Technotalk – Computerised Costs Drafting – a word with Alfonso Fung” published in the May 1994 issue of the Hong Kong Lawyer.
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