A Calderbank offer that merely offers to accept the judgment sum plus costs, containing no element of compromise, will not support an application for indemnity costs. The question whether the costs cap in s 198D of the Legal Profession Act 1987 (NSW) applies to costs incurred in the Court of Appeal was left open for determination by a full bench.
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