NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Hexiva Pty Ltd v Lederer (Costs) [2006] NSWSC 1259
HEARING DATE(S) : 3 November 2006
JUDGMENT DATE : 27 November 2006
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J
DECISION : Order that the second defendants pay 50% of plaintiffs' costs, up to and including 25 September 2006; and whole of plaintiffs' costs, from and after 26 September 2006. Order that plaintiffs pay 50% of second defendant's costs, up to and including 25 September 2006. Order pursuant to Civil Procedure Act, s 101, that interest be paid on the amounts payable under orders 1 and 2.
CATCHWORDS : COSTS – costs of separate issues – where plaintiffs abandon primary claims at commencement of trial but succeed on alternative claim – where defendant amends late to raise limitation defence to which plaintiffs attribute decision to abandon primary claims – where primary claims always had poor prospects – setting off of costs entitlements not necessarily appropriate where one party represented and other not – interest on costs.
Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 101 LEGISLATION CITED : Limitation Act 1969 (NSW), ss 14, 15 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), Schedule 5
Anglo-Cyprian Trade Agencies Ltd v Paphos Wine Industries [1951] 1 All ER 873 Australian Development Corporation Pty Ltd v White Constructions (ACT) Pty Ltd (in liq) [2002] NSWSC 280 Beoco Limited v Alfa Laval Co Limited [1995] QB 137 Cachia v Hanes (1994) 179 CLR 403 Cretazzo v Lombardi (1975) 13 SASR 4 Dodds Family Investments Pty Ltd v Lane Industries Pty Ltd (1993) 26 IPR 261 Grogan v Thiess Contractors Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 1101 Harris v Digital Pulse Pty Ltd (2006) 56 NSWLR 298 Hexiva Pty Ltd v Lederer [2006] NSWSC 318 CASES CITED : Hughes v Western Australia Cricket Association Inc (1986) ATPR 40-748, 48,136 Lahoud v Lahoud [2006] NSWSC 126 Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Limited [1989] 1 WLR 1340 (CA) Mobile Innovations Ltd v Vodaphone Pacific Limited [2003] NSWSC 423 Murrihy v Radio 2UE Sydney Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 318 NRMA Limited v Morgan (No 3) [1999] NSWSC 768 Puntoriero v Water Administration Ministerial Corporation [2002] NSWSC 217 Trade Practices Commission v Nicholas Enterprises Pty Ltd (No 3) (1979) 28 ALR 201 Walters v PC Henderson (Aust) Pty Ltd (NSWCA, 6 July 1994, unreported Waterman v Gerling Australia Insurance Co Pty Ltd [2005] NSWSC 1111
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