5th May, 2010 EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY GAZETTE 51 EAST AFRICAN COURT OF JUSTICE FIRST INSTANCE / APPELATE DIVISION _____________ SECOND SCHEDULE: TAXATION OF COSTS (Rule 113 (3)) Rule 1: Interpretation In this Schedule, a folio means one hundred words, and a single figure or group of figures up to seven shall count as one word. Rule 2: Lodging and service of bill of costs (1) Where costs are to be taxed, the advocate for the party to whom the costs were awarded shall lodge his or her bill with the taxing officer and shall, before or within seven (7) days after lodging it, serve a copy of it on the advocate for the party liable to pay it. (2) A bill of costs shall be lodged as soon as practicable after the making of the order for costs and not later than twenty-one (21) days after a request in writing therefore by the party liable, or such further time as the Registrar may allow. (3) A bill of costs may not be lodged by an advocate who is not on record. Rule 3: Form of bill (1) A bill of costs shall be intituled and filed in the proceedings and shall be in the form of a bill prepared in five columns as followsThe first or left hand column for the dates of the items; The second column for the serial numbers of the items; The third column for the particulars of the service charged for; The fourth column for the professional or scale charges; The fifth column for the taxing officer’s deductions. (2) Every bill of costs shall be endorsed with:(a) the name and address of the advocate lodging the same; the name and address of every party to be served or his or her advocate; (b) a certificate signed by the advocate lodging the bill that the number of folios, in respect of any item in the bill charged for by the folio, is correct. If such certificate is found to be incorrect the item may be disallowed.