Vanta Pty Ltd v Mantovani [No 2]

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Appeal costs
  4. › Successful appellant's conduct disentitling costs order
  5. › Whether trustee's unsatisfactory conduct precluded costs order despite success on appeal
• 1. Equity
  2. › Trusts
  3. › Costs of trust litigation
  4. › Payment from trust fund
  5. › Classification of trust disputes
  6. › Whether costs of all parties should be paid from trust fund
  7. › Whether trustee entitled to indemnity from trust fund despite unsatisfactory conduct
  8. › Trustee Act 1958 (Vic), s 63
• 1. Equity
  2. › Trusts
  3. › Duties of trustee
  4. › Duty to seek judicial advice
  5. › Failure to approach court for directions when trust deed lost
  6. › Whether trustee's failure to seek advice disentitled it to costs

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