30 Nov 2016
SKELTON v BARFOOT & THOMPSON LIMITED [2016] NZHC 2872
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 2872
- Court
- High Court
The Court awarded indemnity costs because the plaintiff persisted with a hopeless case comprising serious, unsupported and inflammatory allegations that ought never to have been made, despite judicial and counsel advice of negligible prospects; such conduct met the threshold in r 14.6(4) for indemnity costs, and the defendant was entitled to recover actual costs and disbursements plus costs of the costs application totaling $19,103.60.