Indemnity costs may be awarded on appeal where the appeal was brought without sufficient prospects of success, particularly where key contentions were unsustainable and inconsistent with documentary evidence, grounds were abandoned after putting the respondent to expense, and the appellant attempted to litigate a new case on appeal. However, indemnity costs should not be too readily ordered merely because appeal arguments were found unpersuasive.
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