Nuix Class Action - Email, page-10

Class action participants will be billed a hourly rate of least $290 for that email for instance. So if it took the paralegal/clerk between 6 to 12 minutes to draft that, at least $58 dollars.

Supreme Court (Chapter I Costs Amendment) Rules 2024
S.R. No. 83/2024

SECTION 1: WHERE THE PARTY ENTITLED TO COSTS IS
CHARGED ON THE BASIS OF HOURLY
RATES


1.2 Time spent by an employee of a law practice (including a
law graduate) who is not a legal practitioner—
(a) doing work requiring legal skill or knowledge—
(in 6 minute units), a reasonable hourly rate, as
allowed, up to a maximum of $390 per hour;
(b) doing work not requiring legal skill or knowledge,
capable of performance by a clerk—
(in 6 minute units), a reasonable hourly rate, as
allowed, up to a maximum of $290 per hour;

SOURCE: https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-09/24-083sra-authorised.pdf

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