Measures for payment of litigation fees
Article 12 In the course of litigation, the people's court decides that the expenses incurred for appraisal, announcement, inspection, translation, evaluation, auction, sale, warehousing, storage, transportation, ship supervision, etc. shall be paid directly to the relevant institutions or units by the parties according to the principle of who advocates and who bears, and the people's court shall not collect and pay on behalf of them.
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.
Extended data
Litigation expenses refer to the expenses that the parties should pay to the people's court in civil, economic, maritime and administrative litigation according to law.
In which: (1) case acceptance fee; (2) Other litigation expenses.
What has the nature of economic sanctions is the reasonable burden of litigation costs for the losing party. Among them, the case acceptance fee has the nature of national tax and should be listed as the national treasury income.
It is a common practice all over the world to collect the litigation fees of civil cases according to law. In this regard, the civil procedure laws of various countries have made principled provisions, and the charging standards and calculation methods of litigation fees are published in the form of separate regulations.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-litigation costs