Reimer v Kafue Pty Ltd as trustee for the SA Patel Family Trust and Dawoodjee Family Trust, trading as Brighton Bayside Caravan Park (ABN 47 408 715 128) [No 2]

[2025] QCA 74

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Costs
3. › Offers of compromise
4. › Calderbank letters
5. › Whether refusal of offer was unreasonable or imprudent
6. › Whether indemnity costs should be awarded

Quick Take

A self-represented litigant's financial hardship, disability, public interest arguments, and concerns about access to justice do not render unreasonable the refusal of a Calderbank offer where the underlying application was doomed to fail for failure to identify a question of law.