25 Jun 2013
DEACONS v. WISEKING MINING INVESTMENT CO LTD
- Citation
- DEACONS v. WISEKING MINING INVESTMENT CO LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1221/2011
Where a solicitor's own client bill for non-contentious complex corporate work is challenged, the taxing master must allow costs unless shown to be unreasonable in amount or unreasonably incurred; applying a flexible approach to historical scale rates and weighing factors in First Schedule paragraph 1(2), the Master found the claimed rates and time were justified by the transaction's complexity, cross-border and listing implications and specialized input, and dismissed the defendant's review in its entirety while maintaining the previously taxed rates (with a limited taxation down of one part…