8 Aug 2016
TAO v STRATA TITLE ADMINISTRATION LTD & ORS [2016] NZHC 1821
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 1821
- Court
- High Court
The Court declined indemnity costs because the plaintiff's conduct, while time-consuming, repetitive and including serious unproven allegations of fraud, did not reach the high threshold required for indemnity. The Court awarded increased costs (25% uplift on scale) because the plaintiff pursued arguments lacking merit, took unnecessary steps, failed to accept available procedural remedies (pay levies and vote), continued to file inadmissible or late material after warnings, and thus unnecessarily increased time and expense. The Court made targeted reductions to the claimed scale (disallowed…