8 Sept 2021
Costs were reserved because the plaintiff's summary judgment application was arguable and not hopeless; therefore there was no basis to depart from the usual practice of reserving costs for unsuccessful summary judgment applications, and no costs award was made.
10 Dec 2019
Given the Court's prior preliminary view, the applicant's uncontested calculation, and the ordinary time required for an averagely complex proceeding, the Court accepted the 2B costs calculation and ordered the appellant to pay $10,924.50.
6 Nov 2018
Costs follow the event; because the respondent did not seek increased costs, the appellant must pay the respondent's costs for a standard appeal on a band A basis and usual disbursements.
5 Jun 2013
The costs award of 13 February 2013 was quashed because the Associate Judge failed to assess whether the additional documents in the later affidavit fell within the specific categories ordered by Clifford J (notably the accounting and tax records), and therefore did not properly establish non-compliance sufficient to justify the costs award; the 12 November 2012 costs order remains and outstanding memoranda on costs are to be forwarded to Clifford J.
28 Oct 2008
The adjudication order was refused because the sealed certificate of judgment was unsafe to rely upon: the sealed costs order appears to include reserved costs that were never determined and the correct remedy is recall of judgment rather than reliance on the existing sealed order, so the court exercised its discretion not to make an adjudication order despite the unpaid debt.
10 Apr 2008
Costs were declined because the need for the ex parte injunction arose from the applicant's solicitors' error in sending their file to the respondent; the respondent acted reasonably, returned the file promptly via her solicitor and complied with the order, so it would be inappropriate to award costs to Cool Moves.