Practitioners in the NT should note that an offer to provide security by way of mortgage or charge over assets (without evidence of ownership, freedom from encumbrances, or personal guarantees) will not displace the usual costs-follow-the-event rule on appeal, and that costs of a security for costs application will ordinarily remain 'costs in the proceeding' under r 63.18 absent special circumstances such as unreasonable conduct, unnecessarily burdensome proceedings, or an application effectively determinative of the substantive dispute.
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