Morris v Hanley & Ors

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Security for costs
  3. › Discretionary factors
  4. › Delay by defendant in bringing application
  5. › Prejudice to plaintiff from expenditure during period of delay
  6. › Whether failure to address delay constituted error of principle
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Security for costs
  3. › Natural persons
  4. › Impecuniosity
  5. › Whether application against natural person based on lack of funds should succeed where defendant permitted plaintiff to incur irrecoverable costs
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Duty to give reasons
  3. › Interlocutory orders
  4. › Security for costs
  5. › Whether duty to give reasons applies to orders for security for costs
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Discretionary judgments
  3. › Error of principle
  4. › Failure to give adequate reasons on material issue
  5. › Whether appellate court should exercise discretion afresh or remit

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