24 Feb 2014
BAKER v WAIMAKUKU WHANAU TRUST BOARD INC [2014] NZHC 255
- Citation
- [2014] NZHC 255
- Court
- High Court
The court ordered that the respondent pay the amicus costs attributable to interlocutory steps in full ($8,712.00) and 25% of substantive costs and disbursements (25% of $39,390 = $9,847.50; 25% of $3,682.93 = $920.74), because the respondent needlessly prolonged the proceedings by pursuing meritless collateral matters; the remaining 75% of substantive costs and disbursements are to be paid from public funds. The court also left open contingent attribution of costs to non-party Nigel Baker if the respondent trust cannot meet liabilities.
- Amicus costs
- Intervener costs under s99a
- Allocation of costs between parties and public funds
- Apportionment of interlocutory and substantive costs
- Non-party costs attribution