GR v Public Guardian (No 2) [2024] NSWSC 485

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: GR v Public Guardian (No 2) [2024] NSWSC 485 Hearing dates: On the papers Date of orders: 30 April 2024 Decision date: 30 April 2024 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Kunc J Decision: Plaintiff to pay second to fourth defendants' costs assessed in the gross sum of $1,940 (exclusive of GST). Catchwords: COSTS — Party/Party — Bases of quantification — Ordinary basis — Assessed as a gross sum — No issue of principle Cases Cited: GR v Public Guardian [2024] NSWSC 205 Category: Costs Parties: GR (Plaintiff) Public Guardian (First Defendant) NSW Trustee & Guardian (Second Defendant) Department of Communities & Justice (Third Defendant) Westmead Childrens Hospital (Fourth Defendant) Impact Youth Services Pty Ltd (Fifth Defendant) Representation: Counsel: M Dalla-Pozza (Second, Third and Fourth Defendants)

Plaintiff (self-represented)

Solicitors: Crown Solicitor for NSW (Second, Third and Fourth Defendants) File Number(s): 2023/55012

JUDGMENT 1. By a judgment delivered on 29 February 2024, the Court dismissed GR's proceedings: GR v Public Guardian [2024] NSWSC 205. These reasons should be read, and assume familiarity with, the judgment. Defined terms in the judgment have the same meaning in these reasons, which dispose of an application brought by the second to fourth defendants for their costs and for those costs to be assessed on a gross sum basis. For the reasons which follow, those orders will be made.