Lorena Zupicic v Angela La Camera Paino as Trustee for the Estate of the Late Mario Novick [2018] NSWSC 1117

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Lorena Zupicic v Angela La Camera Paino as Trustee for the Estate of the Late Mario Novick [2018] NSWSC 1117 Hearing dates: 21 June 2018 Decision date: 20 July 2018 Jurisdiction: Equity - Technology and Construction List Before: Sackar J Decision: See paras [55]-[59] Catchwords: COSTS – appropriate principles and considerations – exceptions to general rule that costs follow the event – whether estate should bear costs of the defendant – whether executor and trustee should have costs borne from the estate – where defendant played adversarial role in litigation Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Probate and Administration Act 1898 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Ashton v Pratt (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 3 Ashton v Pratt (No 2) [2015] NSWCA 134 Drummond v Drummond [1999] NSWSC 923 Free Serbian Orthodox Church Diocese for Australia and New Zealand Property Trust v Bishop Irinej Dobrijevic (No 3) [2017] NSWCA 109 James v Douglas [2016] NSWCA 178 Nowell v Palmer (1993) 32 NSWLR 574 Perpetual Trustee v Baker [1999] NSWCA 244 Priestley v Priestley (No 2) [2017] NSWCA 212 Re the Estate of Hodges (1988) 14 NSWLR 698 Warton v Yeo [2015] NSWCA 115 Texts Cited: Alexander Learmonth et al (eds), Williams, Mortimer and Sunnucks on Executors, Administrators and Probate (Thomson Reuters, 21st ed, 2018) Category: Costs Parties: Lorena Zupicic (Plaintiff) Angela La Camera Paino (as executor of the deceased estate of Mario Novick) Representation: Counsel: D Palmer (Plaintiff) A Maroya (Defendant)