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Costs management order

The court’s order that records the costs each side has already spent and approves its budget for the rest. It controls what each side can later claim from the other. The judge made one at the CCMC. CCMC Order, paragraph 10 · Chapter 6 · see Costs budget

Explained in Chapter 6, The Costs and Case Management Conference, of Civil Litigation.

How it comes up, in Chapter 6
“Incurred costs” are those already spent, and the court only records them. “Budgeted costs” are those still to come, and the court approves them. Together they make a costs management order, which controls the costs each side can later claim from the other. Corledge’s budget was approved only after changes made at the hearing.
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