20 Jun 2014
RE STARPLUS HOMES LTD (IN LIQUIDATION)) v SUN [2014] NZHC 1395
- Citation
- [2014] NZHC 1395
- Court
- High Court
The Court exercised its discretion under the High Court Rules and equitable principles to allocate costs according to conduct and reasonableness: Mr Sun's adversarial and unmeritorious conduct unjustifiably increased other parties' costs and warranted increased costs awards against him to the successful building suppliers; United Timber acted responsibly and is not ordered to pay costs to other claimants; liquidators' reasonable indemnity costs as stakeholder are to be paid from the fund and are to be borne equally by Mr Sun and United Timber, with adjustments for hearing fees, and specific c…