22 Jun 2017
EMINENT INVESTMENTS (ASIA PACIFIC) LTD v. DIO CORPORATION
- Citation
- EMINENT INVESTMENTS (ASIA PACIFIC) LTD v. DIO CORPORATION
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1292/2011
Ritter v Godfrey remains good law after the CJR; the defendant was wholly successful but ran inherently weak defences that were objectively calculated to occasion unnecessary expense (one of Atkin LJ's Ritter factors), and therefore the court exercised its discretion to deprive the defendant of 25% of its costs and award 75% of its costs, with a certificate for two counsel; costs of the hearing that day were ordered as no order as to costs.