17 Mar 2016
Costs awarded to the defendant on a standard 2B basis of $8,920 because the plaintiff misused habeas corpus procedure (the application lacked sufficient evidence of unlawful detention and should have been brought in Family Court); indemnity or increased costs were not justified and the defendant's claimed hourly rate and Category 3 classification were rejected.
29 Jul 2015
Special leave to extend time to appeal the District Court costs decision was refused because the delay was substantial, prejudice to the respondent was clear, and the proposed appeal had extremely slim merits given Judge Crosbie's finding of exceptional circumstances under s45(3) and the appellant's eleventh hour abandonment of the substantive appeal.
31 Jul 2014
No award of indemnity costs because there was insufficient evidential foundation to make findings of bad or very unreasonable conduct; however late discontinuance of serious interlocutory applications justified uplift above scale for wasted preparation (30% uplift to category 2C) and scale costs were awarded for successful interlocutory applications and for steps in each proceeding, with specified disbursements; the presumption under r15.23 was not displaced in absence of evidential basis to do so.