The Civil Procedure Act 2010 (Vic) guides the exercise of the costs discretion on appeal and supports the making of a single percentage costs order rather than issue-by-issue determination. Where an appellant abandons a significant number of grounds at the commencement of the hearing but succeeds on the primary focus of argument, a reduction to 60 per cent of costs may be appropriate.
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