Bahamad v Wong [2020] NSWSC 991

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Bahamad v Wong [2020] NSWSC 991 Hearing dates: 21, 22 & 23 October and 18 November 2019 Date of orders: 3 August 2020 Decision date: 03 August 2020 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Slattery J Decision: Specified lump sum costs order made in the amount of $187,860.63. Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – Costs orders – Gross sum costs order – Civil Procedure Act 2005, s 98(4)(c) – plaintiffs claim relief under Conveyancing Act 1919, s 88K for the creation of an easement over the defendants' properties – proceedings settled after three days of hearing – parties agree that plaintiffs will pay the defendants' costs of the proceedings up to and including the first day of hearing – dispute about which party will pay the costs of the second and third day of hearing – order made for the making of a gross sum costs order – parties at issue about the appropriate quantum of a gross sum costs order. Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005, ss 30(4)(a), 56(1), 57(1)(d), 60, 98(4)(c) Conveyancing Act 1919, ss 88K, 88K(5), Schedule 8, Part 3 Legal Profession Uniform Law 2014. Supreme Court Act 1970 Supreme Court Rules 1970 Cases Cited: Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing Pty Ltd v Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Ltd (No. 10) [2017] NSWSC 16 Australasian Performing Rights Assoc Ltd v Marlin [1999] FCA 1006 Beach Petroleum NL v Johnson (No. 2) (1995) 57 FCR 119 Bell Lawyers Pty Ltd v Pentelow (2019) 372 ALR 555 Edgar & Walker v Mead (1916) 23 CLR 29 Hadid v Lenfest Communications Inc [2000] FCA 628 Hamod v State of New South Wales [2011] NSWCA 375 Hancock v Rinehart (Lump Sum Costs) [2015] NSWSC 1640 Harrison v Schipp (2002) 54 NSWLR 738 Kostov v Zhang (No 2) [2016] NSWCA 2790 Lakis v Lardis (No 3) [2018] NSWSC 1296 Macquarie International Health Clinic Pty Ltd v Sydney Local Health District; Sydney Local Health District v Macquarie Health Corporation Ltd (No. 12) [2019] NSWSC 916 Makaroff v Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 1043 Maylord Equity Management Pty Ltd as trustee of the Batterham Retirement Fund v Nauer (No. 3) [2017] NSWSC 1783 Penson v Titan National Pty Ltd (No.3) [2015] NSWCA 121 Royal v El Ali (No. 3) [2016] FCA 1573 Shiv Abi-K Pty Ltd (2004) 87 NSWLR 568 Silva v Czarnikow Limited (1960) 104 SJ 369 Simone Starr-Diamond v Talus Diamond (No. 4) (2013) 272 FLR 414 Smilevska v Smilevska (No. 5) [2019] NSWSC 986 Russo & Ors v Russo & Ors (No. 4) [2016] NSWSC 1133 Willmott v Barber (1881) 17 Ch D 772 Zepinic v Chateau Constructions (Aust) Ltd (No 2) [2014] NSWCA 99 Category: Principal judgment Parties: First Plaintiff: Noureddine Bahamad Second Plaintiff: Afaf Bahamad First Defendant: Carson Wong Second Defendant: Siobhan Wong Third Defendant: Mark David Layson Fourth Defendant: Sally Rae Layson Representation: Counsel: Plaintiffs: G. Farland, M. Keene Defendants: J.A.C. Potts, A.R. Langshaw