26 Jun 2015
BODY CORPORATE 177519 v LAI AND ORS [2015] NZHC 1465
- Citation
- [2015] NZHC 1465
- Court
- High Court
Costs awarded to the successful opponent on scale 2B but substantially reduced because the respondent's excessive and largely irrelevant cross‑examination and late procedural conduct materially increased the time and expense of the proceedings; informal discovery and inspection costs are recoverable in originating applications only to a limited extent by analogy to schedule 3, and reductions under r14.7(f)(ii) and r14.7(g) are appropriate where a party has contributed unnecessarily to time and expense; separately, s74 did not authorise the plaintiffs' attempt to recover from non‑plaintiff uni…