Romanos v Punjabi Fusion Group Pty Ltd (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1395

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Romanos v Punjabi Fusion Group Pty Ltd (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1395 Hearing dates: 1 September 2023 Date of orders: 17 November 2023 Decision date: 17 November 2023 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Schmidt AJ Decision: (1) Unless the parties disagree with the calculation, in which event they should confer, agree the correct figure and approach within 7 days, the Court's order will be that the defendants bear Mr Romanos' costs of the motions, assessed to be a gross sum of $25,160.56 plus GST. Catchwords: COSTS — Party/Party — costs of motions — plaintiff seeks gross costs order — defendants seek order that only one of them bear part of plaintiff's assessed costs — gross order for costs of motions made against all defendants Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 56, 98 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.1 Cases Cited: Ahern v Aon Risk Services Australia Ltd (No 2) [2022] NSWCA 39 Bechara v Bates [2016] NSWCA 294 Colquhoun v District Court of New South Wales (No 2) [2015] NSWCA 54 Hamod v State of New South Wales and Anor [2011] NSWCA 375 Harrison v Schipp (2002) 54 NSWLR 738; [2002] NSWCA 213 James v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [2017] NSWCA 84 PSR Crown Investments Pty Ltd [2021] NSWSC 491 Tim Barr Pty Ltd & Anor v Narui Gold Coast Pty Ltd [2011] NSWSC 11 Category: Costs Parties: Joseph John Romanos (Plaintiff) Punjabi Fusion Group Pty Ltd (First Defendant) Maninder Kaur Luthra (Second Defendant) Kumaldeep Singh (Third Defendant) Representation: Counsel: M J Jones (Plaintiff) F G Di Lizia (Defendants)