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MAGISTRATES' COURTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 164 

1978 c.23

164.(1) Subject to magistrates' courts rules, a magistrates' court may order
that a successful complainant, plaintiff, applicant or appellant in any
summary proceeding shall recover costs from a defendant or respondent.

(2) Where a complaint, debt or ejectment proceeding, application, appeal or
other summary proceeding is dismissed, withdrawn or ordered to be struck out
or where an order in any such proceeding is refused, the court may order that
a defendant or respondent shall recover costs from the complainant, plaintiff,
applicant or appellant.

(3) The court when making an order for adjournment may order that one party
shall recover from another the costs of the adjournment.

Misbehaviour in court.

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