17. Where two or more defendants file separate contestations, the advocate of the plaintiff receives, for each additional contestation, half of the fees set in section 40 or section 43, according to the stage of the proceedings.
For the purposes of this provision, an intervenor, an impleaded party and a defendant in warranty, if they ask for dismissal of the principal action, are each considered to be a defendant filing a separate contestation.
2020-12-04Decision 2020-12-04, s. 17.