Yanni v Barlatt (2 of 1934) [1934] SLCA 2 (10 October 1934)


Civil Procedure - costs - taxation - costs incurred outside Sierra Leone
- Supreme Court cannot order taxation of bill of costs for work done in
foreign courts - consent of parties immaterial: The Supreme Court of
Sierra Leone has no jurisdiction to order taxation by its taxing master of
a solicitor's costs for work done in the courts of the Gambia, and the
consent of the parties cannot confer on the court a jurisdiction which it
lacks.

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