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Transport and storage expenses
  • 19 Nov 1993

    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. COVO KNITTERS LTD

    Citation
    ATTORNEY GENERAL v. COVO KNITTERS LTD
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA547/1993

    Section 28 authorizes magistrates to award costs beyond counsel and solicitor fees; it includes costs necessarily incurred in investigation and in preserving evidence required for prosecution and for disposal applications, and therefore may encompass actual transportation and storage expenses where reasonably incurred; however no order should be made to recover such charges if the goods are forfeited and the Crown intends to sell them so as to recoup those charges.