Coombes v Roads and Traffic Authority & Ors (No 2)

• 1. Costs
  2. › Bullock or Sanderson order
  3. › Liability of unsuccessful defendant for costs of successful defendant
  4. › Whether fair to impose costs
  5. › Failure to admit responsibility where responsibility should have been known
• 1. Costs
  2. › Offer of compromise
  3. › Offer limited to liability
  4. › Whether offer capable of acceptance
  5. › Verdict no less favourable to plaintiff than offer of compromise
  6. › District Court Rules 1973 (NSW), Pt 19A
  7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.14
• 1. Costs
  2. › Costs on appeal
  3. › No fresh offer of compromise between trial and appeal
  4. › No unreasonable or delinquent conduct
  5. › Whether court should exercise discretion to make indemnity costs order on appeal
• 1. Costs
  2. › Procedure
  3. › Transitional provisions
  4. › Offer made pursuant to District Court Rules 1973 (NSW)
  5. › Trial decision delivered before commencement of Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW)
  6. › Whether savings provisions of Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) apply
  7. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), Sch 6 cl 5, cl 10(b)

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