Bettson Properties Pty Ltd & Anor v Tyler

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › General rule that costs follow the event
  4. › Whether successful party should be deprived of costs
  5. › Whether change in argument on appeal justifies departure from usual rule
  6. › Whether impecuniosity of unsuccessful party is a ground to deprive successful party of costs
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Appeal Costs Fund
  3. › Indemnity certificate
  4. › Discretion to grant certificate where appeal succeeds on question of law
  5. › First consideration of statutory provisions by Supreme Court
  6. › Whether construction advocated by unsuccessful party was fairly arguable
  7. › Appeal Costs Fund Act 1973 (Qld), s 15

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