The Beach Retreat P/L v Mooloolaba Yacht Club Marina Ltd & Ors

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Fixed costs
  4. › Power of court to fix costs
  5. › Whether costs should be fixed rather than assessed
  6. › Principles governing exercise of discretion
  7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (Qld), r 687(2)(c)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Non-party costs orders
  4. › Director and shareholder of impecunious plaintiff company
  5. › Whether non-party was the 'real party' to the litigation
  6. › Whether prior security for costs order precluded non-party costs order
  7. › Whether notice of intention to seek non-party costs order was required
  8. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (Qld), r 681
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Indemnity costs
  4. › Abandonment of proceedings on first day of trial without explanation
  5. › Allegations of dishonesty not supported by evidence
  6. › Whether plaintiffs' conduct was unreasonable
  7. › Whether special or unusual features justified indemnity costs order
  8. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (Qld), rr 702(2), 703(3)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Indemnity costs
  4. › GST component
  5. › Whether indemnity costs should include GST where receiving party entitled to input tax credit
  6. › Indemnity principle

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