East African Community Court of Justice Rules of Procedure, 2019. 9. (1) The fee to be allowed for instructions to make, support or oppose any application shall be such sum as the taxing officer shall consider reasonable but shall not be less than US$ 100. (2) The fee to be allowed for instructions to institute an application, claim or reference or to oppose an application, claim or reference shall be such sum as the taxing officer shall consider reasonable, having regard to the amount involved in the matter, its nature, importance and complexity, the interest of the parties, the other costs to be allowed, the general conduct of the proceedings, the person to bear the costs and all other relevant circumstances. (3) The sum allowed under sub-rule (2) shall include all work necessarily and properly done in connection with the application, claim or reference and not otherwise chargeable including attendances, correspondences, perusals and consulting authorities. (4) Other costs shall, subject to the provisions of Rules 10, 11 and 12 below, be awarded in accordance with the scale set out below. 10. The fee for drawing a document shall include the preparation of all copies for use of the party drawing it and for filing and service when only one other party or one advocate for other parties has to be served: where there are additional parties, fees may be charged for making the necessary additional copies. 11. (1) On taxation the taxing officer shall allow such costs, charges and disbursements as shall appear to him or her to have been reasonably incurred for the attainment of justice but no costs shall be allowed which appear to the taxing officer to have been incurred through overpayment, extravagance, over caution, negligence or mistake or by payment of special charges or expenses to witnesses or other persons or by other unusual expenses. (2) In taxing the costs of any dispute or reference, the taxing officer shall disallow the costs of any matter improperly included in the record of an application, claim or reference or in any supplementary record of an application, claim or reference. 12. If, after a bill of costs has been taxed, the taxing officer considers that, having regard to all circumstances, the total of the bill 93