NSW Caselaw
New South Wales District Court
CITATION: Aldag v Eistis (No 2) [2008] NSWDC 186
HEARING DATE(S): Written submissions
JUDGMENT DATE: 29 August 2008
JURISDICTION: Civil
JUDGMENT OF: Gibson DCJ
DECISION: 1. Amend order 3 of the judgment of 7 August 2008 to order the applicant to pay the respondent's costs of the Notice of Motion. 2. Respondent's application for costs to be paid on an indemnity basis refused.
CATCHWORDS: COSTS - Calderbank offer - application by uninsured defendant for costs against solicitor for plaintiff in unsuccessful public liability claim - whether "walk-away" offer amounts to a compromise - whether seven days a reasonable period - whether unreasonable to reject the offer - application for indemnity costs refused
Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 99 LEGISLATION CITED: Legal Profession Act 1987 (NSW), s 198M Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW), s 348 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rr 42.1 and 42.27(1)
Aldag v Eistis [2008] NSWDC 157 Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 All ER 333 Commonwealth of Australia v Gretton [2008] NSWCA 117 Degiorgio v Dunn (No 2) (2005) 62 NSWLR 284 Fowler, Corbett and Jessop t/as Haydon Fowler Corbett Jessop v Toro Constructions Pty Ltd [2008] NSWCA 178 Jones v Bradley (No 2) [2003] NSWCA 258 Leichhardt Municipal Council v Green [2004] NSWCA 341 Lemoto v Able Technical Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 153 LMI Australasia Pty Ltd v Baulderstone Hornibrook Pty Ltd [2003] NSWCA 74 Ng v Chong [2005] NSWSC 385 CASES CITED: Nobrega v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Sydney (No 2) [1999] NSWCA 133 Peter Willis v Health Communications Network Ltd (No. 2) [2008] NSWCA 2 Russell v Edwards (No 2) [2006] NSWCA 52 Seary v White (No 5 – Costs) [2008] NSWDC 21 Singh v Singh (No 3) [2004] NSWSC 866 Skalkos v Assaf (No 2) [2002] NSWCA 236 SMEC Testing Services Pty Ltd v Campbelltown City Council [2000] NSWCA 323 South Eastern Sydney Area Service v King [2006] NSWCA 2 Tickell v Trifleska Pty Ltd (1990) 25 NSWLR 353 Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) t/as Northaven Retirement Village v Takacs (No 2) [2008] NSWCA 172 Wakaniuci v Adecco Australia Pty Limited; re Abboud [2008] NSWDC 174 Whyked Pty Ltd v Yahoo!7 Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 477
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