Parker v City of Rockingham

• 1. Local Government
  2. › Rates and service charges
  3. › Recovery of unpaid rates
  4. › Costs of recovery proceedings
  5. › Whether statutory right to recover costs is independent of court's discretionary power to award costs
  6. › Nature and extent of recoverable costs
  7. › Whether costs recoverable on indemnity basis or limited to reasonable costs
  8. › Local Government Act 1995 (WA), s 6.56(1)
  9. › Fire and Emergency Services Act 1998 (WA), s 36Z(2)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Statutory right to costs
  4. › Distinction between statutory right to costs and court's discretionary power to award costs
  5. › Whether statutory costs provision confers independent substantive right
  6. › Local Government Act 1995 (WA), s 6.56(1)
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Construction of costs provisions
  3. › Context and purpose
  4. › Legislative history
  5. › Whether words 'costs of proceedings' mean indemnity costs or reasonable costs
  6. › Whether qualification of reasonableness should be implied
  7. › Interpretation Act 1984 (WA), s 18
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Burden of proof
  3. › Incidence of legal burden in statutory proceedings
  4. › Whether claimant or defendant bears burden of proving reasonableness of costs
  5. › Local Government Act 1995 (WA), s 6.56(1)

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