21 Aug 2023
ROY WILLIAM BASSETT-BURR v QUENTIN STOBART HAINES [2023] NZCA 380
- Citation
- [2023] NZCA 380
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held the statutory demands were not an abuse of process in light of subsequent findings that the debt was properly assigned and that the appellant did not commit relevant impropriety nor act solely in his own interests; therefore there was no sufficient basis to impose non-party costs or an uplift on the appellant, and the High Court order requiring him to pay those costs was set aside with directions that the High Court revisit costs in light of this judgment; the Court ordered the respondents to pay the appellant costs of this appeal on a standard band A basis.