Part Ⅰ General Report

1 Cost and Fee Allocation in Civil Procedure: A Synthesis&Mathias Reimann

Part Ⅱ National Reports

2 The Price of Access to the Civil Courts in Australia-Old Problems, New Solutions: A Commercial Litigation Funding Case Study&Camille Cameron

3 Litigating in Austria-Are Costs and Fees Worth It?&Marianne Roth

4 "Everything Costs Its Own Cost, and One of Our Best Virtues Is a Just Desire To Pay It." An Analysis of Belgian Law&Ilse Samoy and Vincent Sagaert

5 Major Shifting: The Brazilian Way&Alexandre Alcino de Barros and Silvia Julio Bueno de Miranda

6 The Irrelevance of Costs Rules to Litigation Rates: The Experience of Quebec and Common Law Canada&H. Patrick Glenn

7 The Double Face of Cost and Fee Allocation in the Czech Republic&Jan Hurdik

8 Cost Wars in England and Wales: The Insurers Strike Back&Richard Moorhead

9 Cost and Fee Allocation in Finland&Jarkko Mannisto

10 La repartition des frais en procedure civile francaise&Nicolas Cayrol

11 Cost and Fee Allocation in German Civil Procedure&Burkhard Hess and Rudolf Huebner

12 Lawyers' Fees in Greece at a Turning Point: Recent Legislative Changes in Litigation Costs&Kalliopi Makridou

13 Shifting Sands and Pyrrhic Victories-The Case of India&Neela Badami

14 It's for the Judges to Decide: Allocation of Trial Costs in Israel Report on Israel&Talia Fisher and Issi Rosen-Zvi

15 Italy: A Tale of Successful Resistance?&Alessandra De Luca

16 Recent Issues of Cost and Fee Allocation in Japanese Civil Procedure&Manabu Wagatsuma

17 Attorney Fee Arrangements Really Matter in Terms of Access to Justice in Korea&Gyooho Lee

18 The Particularities of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China: Legislation on Costs and Fees in Civil Procedure&Candida da Silva Antunes Pires

19 Cost and Fee Allocation in the Netherlands&Marco B.M. Loos

20 Court Costs and Fee Allocation in the Russian Federation: A Civil Law System with a Free Market&Alena Zaytseva

21 Rigidity, Discretion and Potential Reform: Cost and Fee Allocation in Scotland&Greg Gordon

22 Cost and Fee Allocation in Slovenia-From Major to Partial Shifting?&Nina Betetto

23 The System of Costs in Spanish Civil Procedure&Francisco Lopez Simo and Jose Angel Torres Lana

24 Loser Pays-But Only a Reasonable Amount&Martin Sunnqvist

25 Pricey But Predictable: Civil Litigation Costs and Their Allocation in Switzerland&Caspar Zellweger

26 The American "Rule": Assuring the Lion His Share&James R. Maxeiner

Author Biographies

Index