PROCEDURE - costs - whether costs should follow the event - unsuccessful plaintiff seeks indemnity costs against successful defendant - plaintiff alleges defendant admitted the existence of a de facto relationship only just before trial - whether non admission occasioned increase in plaintiff's legal costs.
HELD: defendant's late admission of de facto relationship did not significantly increase the plaintiff's costs - costs should follow the event - plaintiff ordered to pay the defendant's costs on the ordinary basis
Case Details
Citation[2012] NSWSC 1650
CourtNSWSC
JurisdictionNew South Wales
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