Qav Pty Ltd v Netline Pty Ltd

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Leave to appeal
  3. › Costs orders
  4. › Leave to appeal from order as to costs only
  5. › Whether costs decision attended with sufficient doubt
  6. › Whether question of general public importance or issue of principle raised
  7. › Whether significant injustice likely
  8. › Supreme Court Act 1935 (WA), s 60(1)(e)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Costs follow the event
  4. › Whether damages awarded were nominal
  5. › Distinction between small damages and nominal damages
  6. › Whether successful party entitled to costs where damages modest
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Calderbank offers
  4. › Whether rejection of Calderbank offer unreasonable
  5. › Relevance of offeree's previously incurred legal costs
  6. › Whether reasonable offeree would have accepted offer
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Discretionary costs orders
  4. › Appellate review of discretionary costs decisions
  5. › Weighting error
  6. › Whether disagreement on weight justifies appellate interference

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