Where a corporate appellant is resident outside the jurisdiction with no assets in Australia, security for costs will ordinarily be ordered in an appeal even where the appeal has reasonable prospects of success and raises issues of public importance, provided the dispute is essentially commercial in nature. The prospect that only one set of costs may be allowed against the appellant across related appeals is relevant to quantum, not to whether security should be ordered.
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