NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Azzi & Ors v Volvo Car Australia Pty Ltd (Costs) [2007] NSWSC 375
HEARING DATE(S) : 17 April 2007
JUDGMENT DATE : 20 April 2007
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Commercial List
JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J
DECISION : Decline to vary provisional costs order; Plaintiffs to pay Defendant's costs of proceedings assessed on ordinary party-party basis; order that Defendant pay Plaintiffs' costs of and incidental to costs application.
CATCHWORDS : COSTS – Offers of settlement – where offer made by defendant in course of court-referred mediation substantially more favourable to plaintiff than judgment – whether evidence of offer admissible – where offer open only for short time – where offer not stated to be Calderbank offer nor obviously so – whether defendant's costs should be payable on indemnity basis. - ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION – Mediation – admissibility of evidence of statements made during mediation.
(CTH) Family Law Act 1975, s 79A (CTH) Family Law Regulations 1975, reg 96 (CTH) Family Law Rules 1984, O 24 r 1(8) LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Civil Procedure Act, ss 5, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29(2), 30, 33, 34, 98(1)(c), Sch 6 (NSW) Evidence Act 1995, s 131(1), 131(2), 135 (NSW) Farm Debt Mediation Act 1994, s15 (NSW) Industrial Relations Act 1996, s 109 (NSW) Supreme Court Act 1970, s 110I(1), s 110P(4)
Borninkhof v Borninkhof (1986) 11 Fam LR 151; FLC 91-752 Burgess v Mount Thorley Operations Pty Limited [2003] NSWIR Comm 22 Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 All ER 333 Crump v Equine Nutrition Systems Pty Ltd trading as Horsepower (No 2) [2007] NSWSC 25 Fish v Solution 6 Holdings Ltd (2006) 225 CLR 180 Gain v Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1997) 42 NSWLR 252 Gray v Gray (1986) 11 FLR 548; FLC 91-771 CASES CITED : Gretton v Commonwealth of Australia [2007] NSWSC 149 Harrington v Lowe (1996) 190 CLR 311; FLC 92-668 Johnston v Johnston (1986) 10 Fam LR 700; FLC 91-710 Jones v Bradley (No 2) [2003] NSWCA 258 Leichhardt Municipal Council v Green [2004] NSWCA 341 Rdjski v Tectran Corporation Pty Limited [2003] NSWSC 476 SMEC Testing Services Pty Limited v Campbelltown City Council [2000] NSWCA 323 The Silver Fox Co Pty Limited v Lenard's Pty Limited (No 3) [2004] FCA 1570
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