31 Mar 2022
SPARKS v OLLIVER COSTS (NO 2) [2022] NZHC 633
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 633
- Court
- High Court
The plaintiff is liable to pay category 2B costs to the first defendant, quantified at NZD 14,142; the first defendant is entitled to limited disbursements totalling NZD 567.38 (filing fee, LINZ search and earlier Family Court disbursements); costs and disbursements related to interlocutory applications, the counterclaim and post-discontinuance work are disallowed as not reasonably recoverable in this discontinued proceeding; Bankhouse is entitled to recover apportioned accounting disbursements totalling NZD 125,406.76 based on the accountant's conservative apportionment and a 43% allocation…