Naboulsi v Khalil (No 2) [2024] NSWSC 945

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Naboulsi v Khalil (No 2) [2024] NSWSC 945 Hearing dates: 11 July 2024 Date of orders: 12 August 2024 Decision date: 12 August 2024 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Davies J Decision: (1) I order the plaintiff to pay the defendant's costs in the sum of $15,000. Catchwords: COSTS – party/party – gross sum costs order – successful defendant on an appeal from the Local Court – where plaintiff unrepresented – where plaintiff had not paid the judgment sum – where the amounts involved did not justify a costs assessment Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 36.16 Cases Cited: Beau Timothy John Hartnett trading as Hartnett Lawyers v Anthony Robert Bell as Executor of the Estate of the late Mabel Dawn Deakin-Bell (No 2) [2023] NSWCA 311 Bob v Wombat Securities Pty Ltd & Ors (No 2) [2013] NSWSC 863 Hamod v State of New South Wales [2011] NSWCA 375 Harrison v Schipp (2002) 54 NSWLR 738; [2002] NSWCA 203 Naboulsi v Khalil [2024] NSWSC 177 Qasim v Bird & Ors (No 3) [2022] NSWSC 418 Texts Cited: Nil Category: Costs Parties: Wassim Naboulsi (Plaintiff) Bass Khalil (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: In person (Plaintiff) L James (Defendant)

Solicitors: Self-represented (Plaintiff) Abbas and Co Lawyers (Defendant) File Number(s): 2023/172383 Publication restriction: Nil Decision under appeal Court or tribunal: Local Court of NSW Jurisdiction: Common Law Citation: Nil Date of Decision: 14 April 2023 Before: Magistrate Walsh File Number(s): 2023/172383