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Advocates Remuneration Order calculator

The scale fee is a floor, not a suggestion. Enter the value and get the minimum instruction fee under the Order, with every step of the arithmetic and the paragraph it came from.

Matter Value of the subject matter (KES)

Or try: KES 500,000 KES 5,000,000 KES 50,000,000 KES 500,000,000 Clear

Includes the Environment and Land Court and the Employment and Labour Relations Court, which have the status of the High Court. · Advocates (Remuneration) Order, Schedule 6, paragraph 1

Nature of the suit The value of the subject matter is the sum in dispute

How the suit was disposed of The full scale fee A defence or denial of liability was filed

Certificate for senior counsel (adds one half) Certificate for more than one advocate (doubles)

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Minimum you may bill your client

KES 300,000

Advocate and client costs · Part B, the party and party fee plus one half

Recoverable from the other side

KES 200,000

Party and party costs · Part A

How this is reached

KES 120,000 for the first KES 1,000,000, plus 2% of the KES 4,000,000 above it Advocates (Remuneration) Order, Schedule 6, paragraph 1, paragraph 1(b), defended KES 200,000

Charged in addition

Getting up and preparing for trial, at least one third of the instruction fee Schedule 6, paragraph 2 KES 66,667

The taxing officer may increase or reduce the instruction fee, taking into account the nature and importance of the matter, the amount involved, the interest of the parties and the conduct of the proceedings.
A suit for possession of premises or for specific performance of a lease is valued by a rule of its own, not by the price of the land. Switch the nature of the suit above if that is this matter.
This is a minimum, not a quotation. Advocates Act (Cap 16) section 36 makes it an offence to charge or accept less than the prescribed remuneration otherwise than in part payment, and section 46(d) makes any agreement to accept less void.
Value added tax and disbursements are charged on top of the figure above.

What this does not know

This computes the scale fee from the value you type. It does not know what the value of the subject matter is in your matter, and that is usually the argument. Paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 lets the taxing officer increase or reduce the fee for the nature and importance of the cause, the interest of the parties and the conduct of the proceedings. Suits for possession of premises and specific performance of leases are valued by a separate rule. Attendance, perusal, drawing and service items are charged on top and are not computed here. Treat the result as the floor to argue up from, not as a taxed bill.

What the scales pay, side by side

Ordinary defended suit, no certificate. The two court columns are advocate and client minimums, which is what you bill; what the losing side pays is two thirds of it. The conveyancing column is the fee on a sale or purchase of the same value, payable to each side's advocate.

Value	High Court, Sch 6 B	Subordinate court, Sch 7 B	Sale or purchase, Sch 1
KES 500,000	KES 112,500	KES 97,500	KES 35,000
KES 2 million	KES 210,000	KES 180,000	KES 40,000
KES 20 million	KES 750,000	KES 855,000	KES 325,000
KES 100 million	KES 2,550,000	KES 3,855,000	KES 1,525,000
KES 500 million	KES 11,550,000	KES 18,855,000	KES 5,900,000

Stop computing scales. Start billing them.

Inside LawFirmly the scale fee is computed from the matter's own value, written into the fee note with VAT and a sequential number, and posted to the client ledger. The working travels with it, so the bill is ready for taxation the day it is drawn.

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