Fee of Best Criminal Law Firms in Lahore Pakistan:

Jamila Law Associates in Lahore says that the fee of the best criminal law firms in Lahore Pakistan or lawyers in Pakistan is never fixed as they charge according to their competency and skills. If they cannot reach an agreement, the winner’s Advocate will have to ‘tax’ his costs. Taxation of costs is the legal term for describing the checking and assessing of costs by the Court. It has nothing to do with the Inland Revenue! The best criminal law firms in Lahore Pakistan or lawyers in Pakistan will draw up a detailed bill setting out how his costs are made up. Usually, his bill will be divided into sections covering his fees for preparing paperwork and documents, attending barrister’s chambers and Court, preparing for the trial, and a sum covering general care and attention.

Court Official:

The bill is lodged with the Court and will be vetted by a court official, who can disallow certain parts of the bill, for instance, if the work was unnecessary. Thus, the level of costs is ultimately in the hands of the courts, although the courts have to follow scales and maxima laid down for them. In addition, fixed party-and-party costs are laid down for some of the claims. For instance, the maximum a best criminal law firms in Lahore Pakistan or lawyers in Pakistan is allowed for an undefended divorce is usually £47 if counsel is briefed, or £55 if the Advocate takes the case himself. It is all that the loser can be charged in party-and-party taxation, and since the Advocate’s fee will usually exceed that, the client will have to pay the shortfall himself.

Lawyers in Pakistan:

 Similarly, for the best criminal law firms in Lahore Pakistan or lawyers in Pakistan fixed party-and-party costs are laid down generally; the fixed fee is so low that the creditor is almost certain to pay additional Advocate-and-client costs Advocate. In the same way that the loser can have the winner’s costs taxed, so can any client, whether he wins or loses – have his own Advocate’s costs taxed. This taxation will, of come, be on the Advocate-and-client basis. In practice, this happens very rarely, for it is more usual for the best criminal law firms in Lahore Pakistan or lawyers in Pakistan or to agree on his fee with the client. In addition, of course, few clients know that their Advocate’s bill is taxed, for the Advocate need not tell the client of the procedure unless the Advocate is planning to sue the client for the unpaid costs (see blog 838).

Non Contentious:

In non-contentious matters, a client can avoid the expense and risks of having his Advocate’s costs taxed by applying to the Law Society for a remuneration certificate (see blog 836). This procedure is not available in a contentious case. Costs in criminal cases in, civil cases the general rule is that the loser pays the winner’s costs. In criminal cases, this rule cannot be applied as rigidly because often cannot apply this rule will have no money, or he will be going to prison and unable to pay any costs. The prosecutor was wrong in bringing the prosecution, so it might be unfair to order the prosecution to pay all the legal costs of best criminal law firms in Lahore Pakistan or lawyers in Pakistan.