30 Aug 2018
ZENG v CAI [2018] NZHC 2277
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 2277
- Court
- High Court
An Associate Judge had jurisdiction to determine costs of the separate question hearing because the defendant abandoned her defence (analogous to a discontinuance); costs for the separate hearing are awarded to the plaintiff in scale and specified disbursements totaling $126,620.54; the claimed 50% uplift was declined because the lack of merit threshold was not met; the court-appointed amicus costs are payable by the defendant; enforcement of the costs orders is stayed until ten working days after the substantive hearing.