Abigroup Limited v Sandtara Pty Limited

• 1. Contract
  2. › Guarantee and indemnity
  3. › Indemnity for costs
  4. › Whether contractual indemnity for costs operates independently of court's discretionary costs power
  5. › Whether 'all costs and expenses' in indemnity clause means solicitor/client costs or party/party costs
  6. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 76
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Contractual right to costs
  4. › Whether contractual right to costs extinguished or overridden by court's costs orders
  5. › Whether party may enforce contractual indemnity for costs in separate proceedings after costs orders made
  6. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 76
  7. › Supreme Court Rules (NSW), Pt 52A r 8
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Res judicata
  3. › Anshun estoppel
  4. › Abuse of process
  5. › Whether claim for contractual indemnity costs barred by prior costs orders
  6. › Whether separate proceedings to enforce contractual costs right constituted abuse of process
• 1. Contract
  2. › Construction
  3. › Indemnity clause
  4. › Whether reference to 'all costs and expenses' imports solicitor/client costs
  5. › Whether expressio unius principle applies where other clauses specifically refer to solicitor/client costs

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