9 Mar 2021
ADAMS v WATCHER [2021] NZHC 432
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 432
- Court
- High Court
The Family Court erred by awarding indemnity costs for the entirety of the proceedings without analysing lesser alternatives (scale or uplifted scale), without limiting an uplift to particular steps that justified it, and without examining whether the charged fees related solely to those steps; accordingly the indemnity costs order of $29,903.46 was set aside and replaced with a specific scale‑based award of $12,892.50 for the contested hearing period.