24 Aug 2022
MELCO PROPERTY HOLDINGS (NZ) 2012 LTD v ANTHONY JOHN HALL [2022] NZSC 101 [24 August 2022]
- Citation
- [2022] NZSC 101
- Court
- Supreme Court
The Court allowed Melco's appeal and held the caveat should not lapse; the admissible fresh evidence (mobile phone records) justified a modest uplift in costs in the Supreme Court because it required additional work, but did not justify increased awards in the Courts below where those Courts lost on an incorrect legal test rather than on facts rendered dispositive by the new evidence; accordingly the respondent was ordered to pay $22,500 in Supreme Court costs and the Court of Appeal and High Court awards were reallocated on standard bands (CA band A; HC 2B).