14 Jul 2016
VICTORIA QUARTER NO. 1 LTD (as Trustee of the Victoria Quarter No. 1 Trust) v FBB HOLDINGS LTD [2016] NZHC 1597
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 1597
- Court
- High Court
The second defendant is entitled to scale (2B) costs as a successful party but must file a quantified memorandum and confirm the costs do not exceed actual costs (no‑profit rule); a Sanderson order is declined because the defendants faced different issues and justice does not require one codefendant to pay the other's costs; the plaintiff is entitled to increased costs against the first defendant from the date of its Calderbank offer (11 March 2015) because that offer was materially less than the judgment; joint offers by the defendants defeated any uplift claim by the second defendant; inter…