Nadilo v Eagleton

• 1. Costs
  2. › Dismissed proceedings
  3. › Default costs order under UCPR r 42.20(1)
  4. › Power to 'order otherwise'
  5. › Where proceedings dismissed by consent
  6. › Where plaintiff achieved practical success
  7. › Whether manifest error in failing to order defendant pay plaintiff's costs
  8. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.20(1)
• 1. Costs
  2. › Dismissed proceedings
  3. › Effective capitulation by defendant
  4. › Whether necessary to demonstrate unreasonableness of defendant's conduct
  5. › Whether sufficient that defendant surrendered without compromise
  6. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.20(1)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › Costs orders
  4. › Standard of appellate review of discretionary costs decisions
  5. › Whether order unreasonable or plainly unjust
  6. › House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499

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