Maestrale v Aspite (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 1421

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Maestrale v Aspite (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 1421 Hearing dates: 16/11/2012 Decision date: 22 November 2012 Before: Fullerton J Decision: See Maestrale v Aspite [2012] NSWSC 1421 for final orders Catchwords: PROCEDURE - costs - offer of compromise - defendants offered to compromise by paying plaintiff's costs "as assessed or agreed" - whether offer complied with r 20.26 UCPR - whether defendants entitled to costs on indemnity basis - whether offer operated as Calderbank offer - whether costs order should be discounted by reason of plaintiff's conduct of litigation Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 Cases Cited: Cheal Industries Pty Ltd, Re; Fitzpatrick v Cheal [2012] NSWSC 932 Dean v Stockland Property Management Pty Ltd (No 2) [2010] NSWCA 141 Egan v Mangarelli & Ors (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 1226 JKB Holdings Pty Ltd v de la Vega (No 5) [2012] NSWSC 1238 MacDougall v Curlevski (1996) 40 NSWLR 430 Monie v Commonwealth of Australia (No 2) [2008] NSWCA 15 Old v McInnes and Hodgkinson [2011] NSWCA 410 Rail Corp NSW v Vero Insurance Ltd (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 926 Sahab Holdings Pty Limited v Registrar-General & Anor (No 3) [2010] NSWSC 403 Vieira v O'Shea [2012] NSWCA 21 Ziliotto v Hakim (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 1079 Category: Costs Parties: Aldo Maestrale (Plaintiff) Dante Aspite (1st Defendant) Bartholomew Rando (2nd Defendant) Representation: Counsel: JE Rowe (Plaintiff) J Downing (Defendants) Solicitors: MMD Law (Plaintiff) HWL Ebsworth Lawyers (Defendants) File Number(s): 2008/289388