Strzelecki Holdings Pty Ltd v Jorgensen

• 1. Costs
  2. › Party-party costs
  3. › Apportionment where successful party fails on some issues
  4. › Whether discrete and severable issues on which successful party failed added to costs in significant and readily discernible way
  5. › Whether apportionment plainly unreasonable and unjust
  6. › Rules of the Supreme Court 1971 (WA), O 66 r 1
• 1. Costs
  2. › Indemnity costs
  3. › Calderbank offers
  4. › Assessment of reasonableness of rejection
  5. › Whether reasonableness to be assessed by reference to case as pleaded at time of offer
  6. › Whether recipient required to anticipate future amendments to pleadings
• 1. Costs
  2. › Special costs orders
  3. › Whether matter involved unusual difficulty, complexity or importance
  4. › Whether fairly arguable case that bill would tax above scale limits
  5. › Legal Profession Act 2008 (WA), s 280(2)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Appeal from discretionary decision
  3. › Costs orders
  4. › Principles applicable to appellate review of costs discretion
  5. › Whether error of principle or unreasonable and plainly unjust result
  6. › House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499

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