A corporate trustee's right of indemnity from a trust estate with substantial equity may be sufficient to defeat an application for security for costs under s 1335(1) of the Corporations Act, particularly where the potential costs liability is small relative to the trust equity and the applicant has practical means of recovering costs (such as rent set-off). The court assesses probabilities, not certainties, in determining whether the precondition is satisfied.
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