The principle of legal fees payment in China is that the legal fees shall be borne by the losing party, except those voluntarily borne by the winning party.
Pay litigation fees according to the provisions of these measures.
Article 20 The fees for accepting a case shall be paid in advance by the plaintiff, the third party with independent claims and the appellant. If the defendant files a counterclaim and needs to pay the case acceptance fee in accordance with the provisions of these Measures, it shall pay it in advance. The case of recovering labor remuneration may not pay the case acceptance fee in advance.
The application fee shall be paid in advance by the applicant. However, the application fees stipulated in Item (1) and Item (6) of Article 10 of these Measures are not paid by the applicant in advance, but after the implementation of the application fee, and the bankruptcy application fee is paid after the liquidation.
The fees stipulated in Article 11 of these Measures shall be paid after the actual occurrence.
Twenty-ninth litigation costs shall be borne by the losing party, unless the winning party voluntarily bears it.
If the case is partially won or partially lost, the people's court shall decide the amount of litigation costs borne by the parties according to the specific circumstances of the case.
* * * If the parties lose the case, the people's court shall decide the amount of litigation expenses to be borne by each party according to the interest relationship between the parties and the litigation object.
Article 30 If the people's court of second instance changes the judgment or ruling of the people's court of first instance, it shall accordingly change the decision of the people's court of first instance on the burden of litigation costs.
Article 31 In a case reached through mediation by a people's court, the burden of litigation costs shall be settled by both parties through consultation; If negotiation fails, the people's court shall make a judgment.
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