New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Costs of review

Legal area

Court

7 Nov 2008

Cruickshank v Accident Compensation Corporation

Citation

[2008] NZACC 271
Court

District Court

The 21 July 2008 letter was advisory correspondence in the context of a criminal prosecution and did not constitute a decision under Section 6 of the Act; consequently it was not reviewable under Section 134, and the Reviewer did not err in refusing costs where the review was an abuse of process.
25 Jul 2008

Neville v Accident Compensation Corporation

Citation

[2008] NZACC 172
Court

District Court

The Reviewer correctly refused costs because the review was not reasonably brought under s148(2)(b); the dispute was limited to an administrative statement of account and there was no substantive challenge to the calculations of overpayment, and ACC had in fact recovered the amounts—therefore no entitlement to costs.