The Court of Appeal applied the slip rule under UCPR r 36.17 to amend a costs order that had failed to reflect the appellant's prior undertaking to pay the respondent's costs in any event. The error arose because the parties did not explicitly draw the undertaking to the attention of the bench hearing the appeal, even though it had been communicated to the Registrar. The original order requiring each party to bear its own costs was replaced with an order that the appellant pay the respondent's costs as agreed or assessed.
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