27 Oct 2023
Costs were ordered to lie where they fall because the parties had comparable success: Petrou identified significant defects in the statement of claim and succeeded on several points, but ATC succeeded on key substantial issues and was granted leave to replead; on balance no party should recover costs from the other.
21 Feb 2019
The Court granted the adjournment and exercised its case management discretion to require the plaintiffs to file an amended statement of claim and to set a timetable for the defendant's application for particulars, notices of opposition, any application for discovery and opposition to discovery, and directed a hearing for all opposed applications on 12 June 2019 with a schedule for submissions and exchange of common bundle; costs were reserved.
26 Nov 2018
Produce and preserve Craig's remaining phone parts and forensic reports at the time of ordered discovery; defendants had preserved evidence; most interrogatories were sufficiently answered but questions about defendants' knowledge of Craig's relationship with MacGregor are relevant to their honest opinion defence and must be answered; strike-out applications were declined because defects were curable and pleadings disclosed tenable defences; plaintiff's conduct toward Taylor approached but did not cross threshold for abuse of process so claim against Taylor is preserved; plaintiff must replea…