7 Aug 2020
ANNAN v DOUGLAS [2020] NZHC 1987
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1987
- Court
- High Court
The court will correct identified clerical and numerical errors in the costs judgment under High Court Rules r 11.10 but will not use a recall application to re-open substantive costs determinations or to compel detailed disclosures about private billing arrangements; accordingly specific numerical errors identified were corrected and the judgment was reissued, while substantive incidence of costs and banding decisions were left intact and the request to compel a statutory declaration from counsel was refused.
- Recall of judgment
- Correction of clerical error
- Costs assessment
- Ethical obligations of counsel
- Statutory regulation of lawyers