23 Feb 2017
TALBOT v TALBOT [2017] NZHC 257
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 257
- Court
- High Court
The unsuccessful applicant Jillian Talbot must personally meet the reasonable costs awarded: (1) the estates' reasonable indemnity costs and disbursements incurred by the executor (to be quantified following memoranda); (2) Graham's reasonable costs as a beneficiary on a category 2B scale with appropriate uplifts and disbursements (quantum to be determined); and (3) Rachel Cashin's reasonable indemnity costs and disbursements (quantum to be determined). Calderbank-style settlement letters were relevant to justify increased costs but not applied at full force because they were 'walk away' offe…