23 Jun 2020
BURGOYNE v NORTHLAND REGIONAL COUNCIL [2020] NZHC 1424
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1424
- Court
- High Court
The respondent was entitled to recover its actual costs of $4,950 rather than a 2B scale calculation greater than actual expenditure; the Consent Holder was not entitled to indemnity or uplifted costs because the appellant's appeal, while lacking merit and at times discursive, was not brought with flagrant or very unreasonable misconduct but reflected an elderly litigant‑in‑person's lack of legal familiarity; consequently the Consent Holder is awarded costs on scale 2B with an adjustment reducing the claimed preparation days to two.