Mendonca v Tonna; Mendonca v Hathaway; The application of Hathaway and Hosking [2024] NSWSC 1024

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Mendonca v Tonna; Mendonca v Hathaway; The application of Hathaway and Hosking [2024] NSWSC 1024 Hearing dates: On the papers Decision date: 15 August 2024 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Kunc J Decision: Trustees to be indemnified; Dr Mendonca to pay costs from her share of the net sale proceeds Catchwords: COSTS — Party/Party — Exceptions to general rule that costs follow the event — Costs of trustees for sale — Whether plaintiff capitulated — No issue of principle Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) s 101 Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) ss 59(4) and 93 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Pt 42 r 42.25 Cases Cited: Fountain Selected Meats (Sales) Pty Ltd v International Produce Merchants Ltd (1988) 81 ALR 397; [1998] FCA 364 Lewin v Lewin [2019] NSWSC 380 Mendonca v Tonna [2021] NSWSC 1627 National Trustees Executors and Agency Co of Australasia Ltd v Barnes (1941) 64 CLR 268;[1941] HCA 3 Oshlack v Richmond River Council (1998) 193 CLR 72; [1998] HCA 11 Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd v Attorney General for the State of New South Wales [2018] NSWSC 1456 Re Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia; Ex parte Lai Qin (1997) 186 CLR 622; [1997] HCA 6 Stibbard-Leaver v Leaver [2021] NSWSC 65 Tonna v Mendonca [2019] NSWSC 1849 Tonna v Mendonca (No 2) [2020] NSWSC 306 Texts Cited: None Category: Costs Parties: 2021/115917: Renuka Mendonca (Plaintiff/First Respondent) Mark Tonna (First Defendant/Second Respondent) Lorraine Tonna (Second Defendant/Third Respondent) Stephen Hathaway (First Applicant) Philip Hosking (Second Applicant)