CMB v Mental Health Tribunal (No 2)

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Depriving successful party of costs
  4. › Public interest litigation
  5. › Whether appeal raising question of statutory construction of sufficient public interest to justify departure from usual costs rule
  6. › Mental Health Act 2013 (Tas), s 40(b)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Depriving successful party of costs
  4. › Partial success on subsidiary issues
  5. › Whether successful respondent's failure on jurisdictional argument justified departure from usual costs order
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Depriving successful party of costs
  4. › Utility of costs order
  5. › Whether status of parties as publicly-funded bodies justified departure from usual costs rule

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