Alto Pty Ltd v General Motors Australia and New Zealand Pty Ltd (No 2)

• 1. Costs
  2. › Indemnity costs
  3. › Abandoned claims
  4. › Whether claims were hopeless such as to warrant indemnity costs
  5. › Whether abandonment in closing submissions implies claims were doomed to fail
• 1. Costs
  2. › Indemnity costs
  3. › Calderbank offers
  4. › Multiple offers at different stages of proceedings
  5. › Whether unreasonable to reject offers
  6. › Reasonableness assessed at time offer made without hindsight
  7. › Relevance of state of evidence and discovery at time of offer
• 1. Costs
  2. › Interlocutory costs orders
  3. › Whether existing costs orders in successful party's favour should be disturbed

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