Subsidiary procedural applications (including notices of objection to competency and notices of contention) within a matter arising under the WR Act are subject to the s 824(1) costs prohibition, and late abandonment of arguments or filing of notices of contention will not ordinarily constitute an 'unreasonable act or omission' under s 824(2).
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