14 Jun 2019
STAPLES v FREEMAN [2019] NZHC 1347 .
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 1347
- Court
- High Court
The Court treated each side's multiple interlocutory applications as single composite applications for costs; media defendants succeeded on their consented Judge-alone and discovery applications and are entitled to 2B costs (with allowance for the expert disbursement), the plaintiffs had limited but sufficient success on particulars/strike out and succeeded on the discovery application and are entitled to 2B costs for their composite application without uplift, and costs from the Associate Judge's July 2018 judgment are to lie where they fall (requiring the plaintiffs to refund the quashed $1…