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Fixed sum costs award
  • 12 Jun 2006

    SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. MICHAEL REID SCOTT

    Citation
    SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE v. MICHAEL REID SCOTT
    Court
    Court of Final Appeal
    Case number
    FACV8/2005

    The Court has jurisdiction to order costs in respect of motions taken within existing appeals; s.17 grants the Court a broad discretion to make any costs order it thinks fit and s.43 requires taxation only where the Court orders costs of the former kind (to be taxed), not where the Court awards a fixed sum. Applying that discretion, the Court ordered costs against Mr Scott in a fixed sum of $39,206.