Fees

Fees payable in Small Claims, Summary and Ordinary Procedures

Fees payable in Chancery Procedure

Fees payable in Bankruptcy Matters, where no statutory fee is prescribed

Fees payable in Non Contentious Probate Business

Fees payable in Family, Children, Matrimonial or Civil Partnership Proceedings

6. Fees payable in Appeals Matters (whether to the Staff of Government Division or Civil Division)

7. Fees payable in Assessments of Costs 

8. Fees payable in Miscellaneous Matters

Court Services Fees Order 2020 - Guidance Notes

1. Wherever in this Order reference is made to fees for an agreed or contested application, a contested application is defined as being one in which the application has been submitted without being accompanied by evidence of agreement between the parties.
2. Wherever in this Order reference is made to a fee payable for a hearing of a duration of more than 2 days, the fee payable will be calculated by multiplying the number of days scheduled by the daily fee rate (e.g. for a 2 day hearing the fee will be nil, for a 3 day hearing the fee will by 3 x daily rate). Where a hearing has been scheduled for 2 days or less and subsequently lasts for more than 2 days, the fees will be payable as if the hearing had been scheduled for the number of days heard.
3. Hearing fees will be payable by the party which seeks the hearing (by application or otherwise), and will generally be payable at the point of setting down/scheduling of the hearing. In any matter in which the party which has responsibility for the payment of the fee is disputed/unclear, the fee will be apportioned equally between the parties. In the absence of payment of such fee, the hearing may not take place.
4. Where a claimant is entitled to submit multiple claims within a single claim form as per the Rules of the High Court of Justice rule 4.1(2), a fee will be payable for each of the claims contained within the single claim form.
5. The fee shown at Fee Code 4.3(i) relates to any requested or required amendments to a grant or the relevant record resulting from application errors or omissions, except where this relates to an increase to the declared value of the deceased’s estate . Where an amendment is required to a grant to reflect the increased value of an estate the fee payable will be the balance between the fee paid and the applicable higher estate band fee shown in Fee Code 4.2 plus the amendment fee at Fee Code 4.3(i). No amendment fee will be payable as a result of any error or omission made by the Probate Office. Where a Grant or relevant record amendment relates to a lower estate value, an amendment fee will apply.
6. Where a request for access to a court file has been made in relation to paragraph 8.2(ii) the sum due will be calculated as per the following example scenario:
   • Case reference ORD/1901/21;
   • Contains 1 standard court file volume and 4 other files;
   • The fee payable would be 1+4 x the fee stated
   • Should the request be specific so as to identify only certain files this would reduce the sums payable;
   • In the example shown above, if the request was only for the standard court file, only 1 x the fee stated would fall due to be paid
   • Note the relevant item quantities may require to be identified before a definitive fee sum is sought and the file(s) produced
7. In any instance where a fee required to be paid pursuant to this Order has not been paid at the appropriate/required point in time, the relevant fee bearing service/process will not take place. In addition, the Chief Registrar may determine that no other application, process etc. (in any matter) brought or involving the person/entity concerned (save for any brought by any other party to the matter) will take place until all/any outstanding fees have been paid.

*VAT to be added

Table 2 - Event Licence Fee

Table 3 - Authorisation Fees

Transitional Fees - Schedule 4 [Regulation 9]

Table 1 - Application Fees

Table 2 - Issuance Fees