55(1)The costs of the action awarded by the judge shall not, exclusive of actual disbursements, exceed in the aggregate an amount equal to the costs recoverable in a regular court action or twenty-five per cent of the amount found actually due, whichever is the greater, and shall be apportioned and borne as the judge directs, but in making such apportionment he shall have regard to the actual service rendered by or on behalf of the parties respectively.