Markisic v Department of Community Services NSW & Ors

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Gross sum costs orders
  4. › Assessment by the Court to avoid expense of taxation
  5. › Whether costs can be assessed in a gross sum
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Payment forthwith
  4. › Impecunious litigant
  5. › Whether costs should be ordered payable forthwith where litigant is impecunious
  6. › Whether partial payment should be required as condition of continuing proceedings
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Disciplinary function of costs orders
  4. › Costs as restraint on unmeritorious litigation
  5. › Whether stay should be imposed until costs paid
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Adjournment
  3. › Failure to join necessary parties
  4. › Whether adjournment necessary where claims against unjoined parties entangled with claims against joined parties

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