Be prepared to have the court run the ruler over every element of the costs being claimed as part of a settlement.
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This article first appeared in Precedent, the journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, issue 129, published in August 2015 (Sydney, Australia, ISSN 1449-7719), pp49-53. It has been reproduced with the kind permission of the author and the ALA. For more information about the ALA, please go to: www.lawyersalliance.com.au.