BLCM provides a neutral platform and physical venue for parties to resolve disputes relating to the taxation of bills of costs.BLCM provides a forum with competent and experienced Legal Costs Mediators and Assessors to assist parties in resolving their legal costs disputes.There are currently 4 Legal Costs Experts/Mediators/Assessors on the member panel.Each member pays a membership fee to belong to the BLCM and has to comply with a strict Code of Conduct.The BLCM's members are bound to the ethics of "good practice" and apply a certain set of case-law pre-determined legal costs practices to all mediation/assessments.There will soon be 15 members who can be appointed in all major centres in South Africa with a maximum of 10 working days waiting time.The BLCM is administered by The Mafuta Trust , which has a 25% BEE beneficiary component.