New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Travel and disbursements

Legal area

Court

23 Aug 2017

LITTLETON v SERCO NEW ZEALAND LTD [2017] NZHC 2023

Citation

[2017] NZHC 2023
Court

High Court

The Court applied r 14.8 and held that Serco did not establish special reasons to depart from immediate fixation and payment of costs; impecuniosity and the prospect of offset at trial do not constitute special reasons and would amount to an indirect form of security for costs which had already been refused; accordingly costs of $12,934 and reduced disbursements of $308.99 were fixed in favour of Mr Littleton and are payable forthwith.
19 Nov 2013

GOODWIN v ROCKET SURGERY LIMITED [2013] NZHC 3052

Citation

[2013] NZHC 3052
Court

High Court

The correspondence was prima facie privileged under s57 Evidence Act 2006 and no established exception applied for the purposes of this costs application; the respondent was entitled to recover costs on the scale 2B allocations including two days for preparation of the notice of opposition, and the travel and overnight accommodation for counsel from Dunedin were necessary and reasonable disbursements given the matter's history and prejudice to respondent if local counsel unfamiliar with the file had been used.