23 Apr 2021
SHRIMPTON v FREEMAN [2021] NZHC 865
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 865
- Court
- High Court
Plaintiffs were entitled to recover their reasonable costs from the estate because those costs were incurred for the benefit of the estate; the first defendant was entitled to 2B costs against the second and third defendants to be fixed by the Registrar per r 14.2(a) because the defendants later admitted the claim; indemnity costs were declined because the second and third defendants did not act so unreasonably or vexatiously as to justify an uplift under r 14.6(4); and the temporary administrator's costs could not be ordered against the defendants under r 14.6(4)(c) because the administrator…