East African Community Court of Justice Rules of Procedure, 2019. 14. Where a party entitled to receive costs is also liable to pay costs, the taxing officer may tax the costs which that party is liable to pay and adjust them by way of deduction or set-off and direct payment of any balance. Set-off of costs 15. (1) Costs of more than one advocate shall not be allowed unless the Court has so directed— Costs of more than one advocate Provided that if an advocate has instructed another advocate to appear at the hearing of an appeal, the fee paid to the latter, or so much thereof as the taxing officer considers reasonable, may be allowed but solong as the total of such fee and the instruction fee allowed to instructingthe advocate shall not be greater than it would have been if one advocate only had acted in the matter. (2) Where the Court has directed that the costs of two advocates be allowed— (a) where the senior advocate is not a member of the same firm as the advocate on the record, he shall be allowed the fee paid to him, including fees for attending in Court, or so much thereof as the taxing officer shall consider reasonable; (b) where the senior advocate is a member of the same firm as the advocate on record, he shall be allowed such fee as would have been allowed in the case of the advocate not a member of that firm; and (c) the advocate on record shall be allowed the usual instruction, hearing and other fees. (3) The fee paid to another advocate by the advocate on record shall be shown as disbursement. 16. If there has been a change of advocates the bill of costs of the first advocate may be annexed to that of the current advocate and its total shown as a disbursement and the samewill be taxed in the ordinary way, the current advocate being heard on it, but the taxing officer may require the first advocate to attend. 125 Cost where advocates changed during proceedings