21 Dec 2016
CF v THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2016] NZHC 3187
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 3187
- Court
- High Court
The court declined to order costs against the legally aided applicant because the 'exceptional circumstances' threshold in s 45(2) Legal Services Act 2011 was not met, and declined to order costs against counsel personally because the conduct, while blameworthy, did not causally justify a solicitors' wasted costs order; the court declared that but for the applicant's legal aid status it would have ordered costs of NZD 1,448 in favour of the respondent.