29 Jun 2006
TAIRUA MARINE LIMITED AND PACIFIC PARADISE LIMITED V WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL AND ANOR HC AK CIV-2005-485-04
- Citation
- openlaw-645a87d6_b090_453f_a2d4_6358a13ae670.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The High Court held the Environment Court did not err in refusing to defer deciding costs, in treating invoices addressed to a third party as evidence of costs incurred by a party on a purposive basis, in using the District Court scale of costs as guidance for quantum in the particular circumstances, and that the resulting awards were not manifestly excessive; thus the Environment Court's costs determinations stand subject to procedural directions for further submissions.