COSTS
1. (1) Save as otherwise provided by Statute, or by these Rules, the granting or withholding of the costs of any party to any proceeding in the court shall be in the discretion of the Judge or the County Registrar as the case may be.
(2) Notwithstanding sub-rule (1), the court, in considering the awarding of the costs of any appeal from the District Court or of any application in respect of such an appeal, or in considering the awarding of the costs of any action (other than an action in respect of a claim or counterclaim concerning which a lodgment or tender offer in lieu of lodgment may be made in accordance with Order 15) or any application in such an action, may, where it considers it just, have regard to the terms of any offer in writing sent by any party to any other party or parties offering to satisfy the whole or part of that other party’s (or those other parties’) claim or counterclaim the subject of the appeal, or application.
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