Where a decisive legal issue was not raised at trial but was fully ventilated on appeal, any procedural unfairness at first instance is cured and does not justify departure from the general rule that costs follow the event. A lump sum costs order will not be made where the applicant provides no principled or substantiated basis for the quantum claimed; the court must be confident the approach to estimating costs is logical, fair and reasonable.
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