21 Dec 2020
ANDERSON v EUGENE JOHN DE MARCO [2020] NZHC 3490
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 3490
- Court
- High Court
The Court held the plaintiffs could recover legal expenses as damages to the extent those expenses were not for work on these proceedings, allowed the plaintiffs' claimed legal expenditure subject to a $538.20 deduction and limited the award to the amount originally claimed ($38,313.46), directed that costs be assessed on the High Court scale under r14.13 given the circumstances, allowed the majority of expert fees and disbursements but disallowed specific items (subpoena service fee $195.50, filing fee $200, sealing charging order $100), and ordered the judgment not be executed pending deter…