4 Aug 2017
BOWDEN v BOWDEN [2017] NZHC 1841
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 1841
- Court
- High Court
The respondent was the successful party on appeal and is prima facie entitled to costs; the appellant achieved limited success (ACC payout) warranting a modest discount but unreasonably failed to accept a generous Calderbank offer which left her worse off, justifying uplift to permit the respondent to recover his actual costs; indemnity costs were not warranted; award entered for respondent of $7,392.50 subject to provision of a costs schedule; the ACC payout was held to be relationship property entitling the appellant to 20%.