27 Jul 2021
90 NINE LTD v BROWN TROUT EUPHORIA LTD [2021] NZHC 1910
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 1910
- Court
- High Court
Plaintiff was not entitled to solicitor-client costs because the notice of assignment conveyed only the existing debt and not any separate contractual right to indemnity costs; the Questionnaire did not clearly create an entitlement to solicitor-client costs and the assignor named in the assignment differed from the entity on the Questionnaire; plaintiff made a late unexplained change to seek indemnity costs after counsel representations induced reliance by defendant; exercising discretion, the Court refused indemnity costs and awarded only the previously claimed 2B scale costs of $3,346 and…