About this webinar

Delivered as an insightful webinar, this webinar delves into the practical implications of cost orders and the drafting of a bill of costs. You will gain a clear understanding of the preparation process, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical tips to ensure your bill of costs is accurate and effective. By the end of the webinar, you will be confident in your ability to draft bills of cost professionally and efficiently.

Topics to be covered in this webinar

• Introduction to costs
• Civil litigious matters
• Different cost orders
• Prescribed tariffs
• Pre-requisites for drawing a bill
• Anatomy of a bill of costs
• Terminology referred to in a bill of costs
• Drawing of the bill of costs
• Practical hints
• Opposing a bill of costs
• Settling bills of cost
• Formal requirements for taxation
• Taxation
• Penalties
• Review of taxation
• Value added tax

Benefits of attending

Attending this webinar will contribute to your professional development. It will add an additional service offering and skill that will result in the growth of your business. It will equip you with the necessary knowledge and skill to draw a proper bill of costs to ensure that your client’s rights are protected, and to fully recover all costs on behalf of your client from the unsuccessful party. It will ensure that all the costs your client is entitled to recover, are included in the bill. It will assist you to prevent your firm from suffering a loss when drawing an account for attorney and own client costs which are to be recovered from your client.
Presenter
Cornelius Meiring was admitted as a legal practitioner of the High court in February 1997. He was also admitted as a conveyancer in 2002 and has been in full time practice as an attorney and conveyancer for the past 26 years. Cornelius become involved with LEAD in 2006 and has been presenting various topics for the past 18 years. The subjects / topics he presents include Legal Practice Accounts Management, Wills, Estates, Trusts, and Legal Costs, among others. He is also a guest lecturer at the North West University, where he presents Accounting for Legal Practitioners. Cornelius is also part of the LPCs Disciplinary Committee and Fee Dispute Resolution Committee.

Dates and times

29 September 2025 : 13:00 to 16:00

Note: Kindly note that this webinar might run over the scheduled time. Please do not arrange any other appointments for at least 30 minutes after the planned closing time.

Closing date for registrations: 26 September 2025.

Certification
All sessions are mandatory to qualify for a certificate.

• Legal Practitioners
• Candidate Legal Practitioners
• Cost Consultants
• Other Legal Professionals
• Legal Practitioners’ support staff

Registration fee categories (including VAT):
•    Practising legal practitioners and other staff from legal firms: R 880 per person.
•    Non-practising legal practitioners/others: R 1 190 per person.

Kindly note that you can only register online. Participants should be registered individually to enable the system to generate a unique username and password for each person.

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Email: Yolanda@LSSALEAD.org.za or Tel No 012 441 4652

• The LSSA will not accept liability if the fees are not paid into the designated LSSA bank account.
• The webinar is conducted in English only.
• The webinar will be delivered through MS TEAMS. Please ensure that you have MS TEAMS installed on your computer prior to the commencement of the webinar.
• According to Company Policy and copyright protection, no recordings or the PowerPoint presentation will be made available after the webinar.
• We anticipate a large number of delegates attending this training, which may result in a high volume of questions. To ensure thorough and thoughtful responses, answers may be compiled and emailed to all participants during the week following the conclusion of the course. If this occurs, the compiled questions and answers can also serve as an addendum to the course materials.
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• Should you need to cancel your registration, you need to do so in writing before the webinar link and material are shared. No cancelation will be accepted after it has been made available and failure to comply with this will result in the full fee being charged.
• LSSA/LEAD shall have the right in its sole discretion to postpone or cancel tuition in any programme initially advertised and offered based on insufficient demand. Should LSSA/LEAD cancel the proposed training, registered delegates will be given reasonable notice of the cancellation and all fees paid by the delegate will be refunded.

LEAD is one of the largest providers of legal and professional education in South Africa and has been accredited as a legal education provider by the Legal Practice Council. LEAD provides access to quality learning that is relevant, accessible and affordable. LEAD offers an extensive range of learning activities and training options.