Costs

30.-(1) The costs of and incidental to any proceedings shall be in the discretion of the Tribunal.

(2) If the Tribunal directs that the costs of a party to the proceedings shall be paid by any other party thereto, the Tribunal may settle the amount of the costs by fixing a lump sum, or it may direct that the costs shall be taxed by the registrar on one of the scales of costs prescribed in Appendix B του περί Πολιτικής Δικονομίας (Τροποποιητικού) Διαδικαστικού Κανονισμού του 1978.

(3) In the absence of an agreement signed by the client, advocates as between themselves and their clients shall, subject to any order of the Tribunal, be entitled to charge and shall be allowed the fees prescribed in Appendix B του περί Πολιτικής Δικονομίας (Τροποποιητικού) Διαδικαστικού Κανονισμού του 1978, as are appropriate to the case.

(4) Where a client, after being furnished by his advocate with a bill of costs, fails or refuses to pay the amount thereof, or disputes the amount of such bill of costs, the advocate or the client, as the case may be, may apply to the registrar to tax the bill of costs, and the registrar shall tax the bill of costs accordingly.

(5) Where the Tribunal directs that only part of the costs of a party to the proceedings shall be paid by any other party thereto, the registrar in taxing a bill of costs between advocate and client may allow full costs in respect thereof.

(6) In the absence of an agreement signed by the client, an advocate may not recover against his client a greater amount of costs than the client would have recovered as between party and party if he had been successful.

(7) Every taxation of a bill of costs shall be subject to the same conditions and Rules of Court as regulate the taxation of costs in civil actions, either between party and party or between advocate and client, so far as the same are applicable.

(8) Any party dissatisfied with a "taxation of costs by the registrar may, within 10 days of the taxation, serve on any other party interested therein and on the registrar objection in writing specifying the items objected to and the grounds of objection and asking for the taxation to be reviewed by the President in respect of such items.

(9) Upon such application the President may make such order as he thinks just, including an order as to the payment of the costs of the review, but the taxation of the registrar shall be final in respect of all matters to which objection shall not have been taken.

(10) A certificate of taxation may be executed as if it were a decision of the Tribunal.