Lord v Craig

• 1. Succession
  2. › Family provision
  3. › Costs
  4. › Prospective costs capping orders
  5. › Whether costs capping order appropriate at early interlocutory stage prior to completion of interlocutory steps and allocation of hearing date
  6. › Evaluative determination of proportionate costs cap
  7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.4
  8. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 98
  9. › Succession Act 2006 (NSW), s 99
• 1. Succession
  2. › Family provision
  3. › Costs
  4. › Proportionality of costs to estate value
  5. › Small estates
  6. › Whether total costs would exhaust estate
  7. › Obligations of parties and practitioners to moderate costs
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Costs capping orders
  4. › Prospective capping at interlocutory stage
  5. › Evaluative determination rather than fixed percentages or rules of thumb
  6. › Power to vary for special reasons in interests of justice
  7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.4(4)

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