24 Jul 2020
LINCOLN v ATTORNEY-GENERAL (COSTS) [2020] NZHC 1810
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1810
- Court
- High Court
Plaintiff was not an aided person for the substantive hearing so s45 protection did not apply to that hearing or to costs incurred prior to the date of the limited interim grants; the defendant is entitled to costs on a 2B basis for work up to 17 October 2019 and from the commencement of the substantive hearing, together with awarded disbursements and payment of interlocutory costs fixed earlier, but uplift for rejection of the Calderbank offer is declined given partial settlement of issues and the plaintiff's financial circumstances.