30 Aug 2022
HIBELL v ROGERS [2022] NZHC 2157
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 2157
- Court
- High Court
A 50% uplift on scale 2B costs was appropriate because the appellant unreasonably refused a reasonable Calderbank settlement offer and pursued an appeal of limited merit; s40 PRA permits such a costs order and the settlement would have left the appellant in a significantly better position than the eventual substantive result, justifying the uplift.