Burslem v Roberts

• 1. Workers' Compensation
  2. › Costs
  3. › Power of Workers' Compensation Court to award costs
  4. › Whether statutory power to make 'such orders as to costs as it thinks fit' permits departure from costs scale fixed by rules
  5. › Relationship between general costs discretion and specific rule-making power
  6. › Workers' Compensation Act (NT), ss 6B(1A), 6F(1)
  7. › Workers' Compensation Tribunal Rules, r 30
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Scales of costs
  4. › Whether court may apply different scale from that prescribed by rules
  5. › Indemnity principle
  6. › Costs scale not updated since 1978
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Abuse of process
  3. › Application to court raising issue already pending on appeal in separate proceedings
  4. › Whether abuse of process
  5. › Inherent jurisdiction to correct abuse
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Res judicata
  3. › Prior application for same costs order rejected
  4. › No appeal lodged
  5. › Whether subsequent application for same order barred

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