The principles governing costs upon discontinuance summarised in Soteriadis v Nillumbik Shire Council apply with equal force to discontinuance of applications for leave to appeal in the Court of Appeal under r 64.29, and a party's forensic decision to discontinue an appeal in order to pursue the same outcome through a different procedural route does not constitute a supervening event justifying departure from the usual costs rule.
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