Hart Security Australia Pty Ltd v Boucousis & Ors (No.2) [2014] NSWSC 1815

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Hart Security Australia Pty Ltd v Boucousis & Ors (No.2) [2014] NSWSC 1815 Hearing dates: In Chambers Decision date: 18 December 2014 Jurisdiction: Equity Division Before: Darke J Decision: Order for indemnity costs made in respect of costs incurred after making of second offer of compromise. Catchwords: COSTS - indemnity costs - offers of compromise not accepted by unsuccessful plaintiff - prima facie entitlement of defendant to indemnity costs - whether Court should order otherwise - whether genuine offer of compromise - whether unreasonable to not accept offer Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) s 56 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules rr 20.26, 29.10, 42.15A Cases Cited: Hart Security Australia Pty Ltd v Boucousis & Ors [2014] NSWSC 1654 Leach v The Nominal Defendant (No.2) [2014] NSWCA 391 Regency Media Pty Ltd v AAV Australia Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 368 Category: Costs Parties: Hart Security Australia (plaintiff)

Christian Patrick Boucousis (first defendant) Juan Jose Martinez t/as HWL Ebsworth Lawyers (second defendant) Ian Charles Awford (third defendant) John Henry Bartrop (fourth defendant) John Cunningham Bell (fifth defendant) Bryan Robert Belling (sixth defendant) Dennis Raymond Bluth (seventh defendant) Michael Anthony Bowyer (eighth defendant) Christopher Bruce Brierley (ninth defendant) Seamus John Burke (tenth defendant) Steven Robert Burns (eleventh defendant) Duncan McKellar Campbell (twelvth defendant) Kerrie Therese Chambers (thirteenth defendant) David Leslie Steven Clarke (fourteenth defendant) John Alexander Cole (fifteenth defendant) Sancia Catherine de Jersey (sixteenth defendant) Alice Mary Deboos (seventeenth defendant) Mary Elizabeth Digiglio (eighteenth defendant) Martin Murray Kivell Downing (nineteenth defendant) Robert Charles Gardini (twentieth defendant) Peter James Garrett (twenty first defendant) Kirston Marie Gerathy (twenty second defendant) Richard Kenneth Graham (twenty third defendant) Richard Courtney Gration (twenty fourth defendant) Lawrence John Graves (twenty fifth defendant) Timothy Martin Griffiths (twenty sixth defendant) Julie Clarie Hamblin (twenty seventh defendant) Matthew Carter Harding (twenty eighth defendant) Mark Alfred Killen Harrowell (twenty ninth defendant) Jane Elizabeth Hewitt (thirtieth defendant) Anthony John Highfield (thirty first defendant) Ashley William Holland (thirty second defendant) Grant William Hummel (thirty third defendant) Joseph Alan Hurley (thirty fourth defendant) Robert Guy Johnston (thirty fifth defendant) Peter Ewan Kennedy (thirty sixth defendant) Sonya Anne Maree Kroon (thirty seventh defendant) Simon Francis Liddy (thirty eighth defendant) Norman Douglas Lyall (thirty ninth defendant) Peter Eric Mackenzie (fortieth defendant) Nicholas John Matkovich (forty first defendant) Julian Patrick McGrath (forty second defendant) Robert Macpherson McGregor (forty third defendant) Michael James Neylan (forty fourth defendant) Grant William O'Grady (forty fifth defendant) Brian Stuart Olliver (forty sixth defendant) Lachlan Robert Paterson (forty seventh defendant) Madeleine Mary Perrignon (forty eighth defendant) Elisabeth Mary Frances Ritchie (forty ninth defendant) Robert Bruce Henry Schneider (fiftieth defendant) Penelope Jane Snyman (fifty first defendant) Elias Vasil Stephen (fifty second defendant) Paul James Stephenson (fifty third defendant) Lani Carol Sutherland (fifty fourth defendant) Thomas Matthew Suttie (fifty fifth defendant) Jonathan Clemenet Tapp (fifty sixth defendant) Brian James Thomas (fifty seventh defendant) David Michael Vaughan (fifty eighth defendant) William Alexander Doug Vorbach (fifty ninth defendant) Damien Gregory Ward (sixtieth defendant) Mark James Webeck (sixty first defendant) Danella Ann Wilmshurst (sixty second defendant) Jury Ivan Wowk (sixty third defendant) Representation: Counsel: S Duggan (plaintiff) R A Parsons (first defendant) T M Faulkner SC (second to sixty third defendants) Solicitors: Bartier Perry (plaintiff) CLS Legal (first defendant) Gilchrist Connell (second to sixty third defendants) File Number(s): 2013/24851 Publication restriction: Nil.