8 May 2000
The court exercised its discretion on gross sum assessment, allowing only $45,000 of counsel fees (for advising and attending the 5 May hearing), $65,000 for solicitors' work (disallowing interrogatories and reducing for duplication/over‑servicing), and $5,000 for attendance today, totalling $115,000 payable by the plaintiff to the defendants.
13 Feb 1991
On a taxation on the common fund basis the master must allow costs that are reasonably incurred; given the exceptional scale, complexity and volume of documents in this litigation the defendants established that additional office rental and the retention of an in‑house technical consultant were reasonably and necessarily incurred for the defence; accordingly those items are allowable (subject to specific percentage reductions on certain office items), and in‑house staff costs may be recoverable where directly and reasonably attributable to litigation work.