25 Jul 2023
VAN HEEREN v HERMANS - Costs [2023] NZHC 1941
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 1941
- Court
- High Court
The court awarded the first respondent 2B scale costs totalling $7,767.50 and disbursements of $110, to be paid by the trustees from amounts held on behalf of the trust in their solicitors' trust account; the court declined to make van Heeren personally liable and declined to award costs of the costs application or uplift to band C, applying the principle that normal time merits band B and that costs of costs applications are exceptional.