Special costs provisions in the Crime and Corruption Act 2001 (Qld) ss 196(7) and 332(3) apply only to the costs of the first instance application and do not extend to the costs of an appeal from that application. Rule 766(1)(a) UCPR does not operate to apply those provisions to the appeal costs order, though the existence of such provisions is a relevant but not determinative consideration in the exercise of the court's discretion on appeal costs.
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