New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Interpreters

Legal area

Court

23 Nov 2017

Jiang v Huang [2017] NZHC 2884

Citation

[2017] NZHC 2884
Court

High Court

Award costs to plaintiff on a 2B scale ($45,826.50); refuse uplift because plaintiff did not provide evidence of additional costs from late disclosure, the counterclaim was not shown to be hopeless to justify uplift, and extra time preparing evidence is not a basis for uplift in ordinary commercial litigation; allow recovery of the plaintiff's half share of the official interpreter as a reasonably necessary disbursement under r14.12 but refuse recovery for a second private interpreter as personal convenience.
23 Jun 2016

LI v COMMISSIONER OF POLICE [2016] NZHC 1383

Citation

[2016] NZHC 1383
Court

High Court

In civil proceedings under the Evidence Act a witness who requires communication assistance is entitled to that assistance; where an applicant requires an interpreter to give evidence and will not pay, the Crown must provide and meet the costs in the first instance when it has sought to cross-examine the applicant's affidavit, subject to the trial Judge's assessment under s81 and any subsequent costs order allocating the expense.