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Topic

Split trial application

Legal area

Court

6 Jul 2021

HELILOGGING LIMITED (in receivership and liquidation) v CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OF NEW ZEALAND [2021] NZHC 1676

Citation

[2021] NZHC 1676
Court

High Court

Costs awarded to the defendant on a category 3 basis; specific band C allocations were appropriate for numerous complex steps (statement of defence, amended defences, interrogatories, split trial application, case management, discovery listing and inspection); disbursements for two witnesses (Bernie Lewis and John Fogden) were allowed as reasonably necessary and reasonable in amount; third counsel for the 2019 trial was allowed at 25% of senior counsel rate; uplift under r14.6 was declined despite plaintiffs' unfounded allegations because the claim was not so unreasonable to warrant uplift; r…
18 May 2018

BLOMFIELD v SLATER (3) [2018] NZHC 1101

Citation

[2018] NZHC 1101
Court

High Court

The Court retained the proceeding as Category 2 for now; awarded the plaintiff costs for successful joinder and for seeking further and better particulars on a Category 2B basis (including the appearance before Brewer J); refused the split trial application; declined the renewed security for costs application as premature and rendered pointless by defendant's self-representation and lack of leave for a second application; refused to make unless orders because the defendant may be unable to comply due to loss/deletion of electronic material and making such orders would risk unfairly preventing…