The ordinary rule that costs follow the event on a successful appeal is not displaced merely because the appeal succeeded on a jurisdictional point not specifically pleaded as a ground of appeal, where the respondent was notified of the jurisdictional impediment before the hearing and elected to defend the appeal rather than concede. However, where the merits of interlocutory applications below have not been considered by the appellate court, costs of those applications may appropriately be remitted to the trial judge.
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