Swiegers v Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (No 3) [2016] NSWDC 146

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Swiegers v Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (No 3) [2016] NSWDC 146 Hearing dates: 5 July 2016 Date of orders: 26 July 2016 Decision date: 26 July 2016 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: Justice Price, Chief Judge Decision: (1) The plaintiff is to pay the defendant's costs assessed on an ordinary basis up to 18 September 2013.

(2) The plaintiff is to pay the defendant's costs assessed on an indemnity basis from 19 September 2013. Catchwords: COSTS – termination of employment contract – verdict for the defendant – general rule that costs follow the event under UCPR, r 42.1 – whether court should make differential costs orders – offers of compromise under UCPR, r 20.26 – Calderbank style letters – whether order should be made for indemnity costs Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), ss 20.26, 42.1, 42.15A Cases Cited: Bailey v Director-General, Department of Natural Resources NSW [2015] NSWCA 318 Beck v LW Furniture Consolidated (Aust) Pty Ltd [2012] NSWCA 76 Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 All ER 333 Commonwealth of Australia v Gretton [2008] NSWCA 117 Cutts v Head [1984] Ch 290 Elite Protective Personnel Pty Ltd v Salmon (No 2) [2007] NSWCA 373 Firebird Global Master Fund II Ltd v Republic of Nauru (No 2) (2015) 327 ALR 192; [2015] HCA 53 Griffith v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (No 2) [2011] NSWCA 145 King v Benecke [2014] NSWSC 957 Leichhardt Municipal Council v Green [2004] NSWCA 341 Nu Line Construction Group Pty Ltd v Fowler (aka Grippaudo) [2012] NSWSC 816 Permanent Trustee Australia Ltd v FAI General Insurance Co Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, Hodgson CJ in Eq, 3 June 1998, unreported, BC 9802305) Swiegers v Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [2015] NSWDC 298 Swiegers v Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (No 2) [2016] NSWDC 3 Category: Costs Parties: Gerhard Frederick Swiegers (Plaintiff) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: M Gibian (Plaintiff) J Bourke QC (Defendant)