Hawkes Menangle Pty Ltd v Brennan (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1486

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Hawkes Menangle Pty Ltd v Brennan (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1486 Hearing dates: On the papers Date of orders: 01 December 2023 Decision date: 01 December 2023 Jurisdiction: Equity - Real Property List Before: Richmond J Decision: Defendants pay the plaintiff's costs of the proceedings on the ordinary basis up to and including 28 September 2022 and on an indemnity basis thereafter. Catchwords: COSTS — Party/Party — bases of quantification — indemnity basis — Calderbank offer — no issue of principle Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 WLR 586; [1975] 3 All ER 333 Grbavac v Hart [1997] 1 VR 154 at 165; [1996] VSC 37 Hawkes Menangle Pty Ltd v Brennan [2023] NSWSC 1095 Hawkesbury City Council v The Civil Experts Pty Ltd t/as TCE Contracting (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1108 Hazeldene's Chicken Farm Pty Ltd v Victorian Workcover Authority (No 2) (2005) 13 VR 435; [2005] VSCA 298 Lowe v Lowe (No 3) [2015] NSWSC 1800 Miwa Pty Ltd v Siantan Properties Pte Ltd (No 2) [2011] NSWCA 344 Oshlack v Richmond River Council (1998) 193 CLR 72; [1998] HCA 11 Sewell v Zelden (No 2) [2010] NSWSC 1181 Valmont Interiors Pty Ltd v Giorgio Armani Australia Pty Ltd (No 3) [2021] NSWCA 160 Wheatley v Lakshmanan (No 2) [2022] NSWSC 851 Whitney v Dream Developments Pty Ltd (2013) 84 NSWLR 311; [2013] NSWCA 188 Zillotto v Hakin [2013] NSWCA 359 Category: Costs Parties: Hawkes Menangle Pty Ltd (Plaintiff) Stephen Leonard Brennan (First Defendant) Gregory John Holdsworth (Second Defendant) Representation: Counsel: D Allen (Plaintiff) M J Wells (Defendants)