Bryony Adams on her own and on behalf of all the partners in the firm known as Herbert Smith Freehills (ABN 98 773 882 646) v PlayUp Ltd (ACN 612 529 307)

[2026] NSWSC 89

Supreme Court of NSW

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Catchwords

1. Costs
2. › Costs assessment
3. › Commercial client
4. › Application of Legal Profession Uniform Law 2014 (NSW) s 170(1)(a)
5. › Public company and subsidiary of public company
6. › Whether commercial clients excluded from costs assessment regime
7. › Legal Profession Uniform Law 2014 (NSW), ss 170, 196-205
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Jurisdictional error
4. › Costs assessment
5. › Decision of Manager, Costs Assessment to extend time and appoint costs assessor
6. › Whether decisions beyond jurisdiction where applicants were commercial clients
7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 69

Quick Take

A public company and a wholly owned subsidiary of a public company are 'commercial clients' under s 170(2)(b)(i) of the Legal Profession Uniform Law 2014 (NSW), and the Manager, Costs Assessment has no jurisdiction to entertain a costs assessment application by such clients under Part 4.3 of that Act.