Hermes Far Eastern Shining Pty Ltd v Potable Gold Strike Pty Ltd

• 1. Costs
  2. › Party/party costs
  3. › Orders against non-parties
  4. › Personal costs orders against lawyers
  5. › Wasted costs jurisdiction
  6. › Whether solicitor's conduct constituted egregious conduct
  7. › Whether continuing to act on unwinnable claim sufficient without more
  8. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 99
• 1. Costs
  2. › Party/party costs
  3. › Orders against non-parties
  4. › Personal costs orders against lawyers
  5. › Legal professional privilege
  6. › Whether solicitors entitled to benefit of doubt where client maintains privilege
  7. › Whether court can be satisfied it is fair to make order against practitioner precluded from giving full answer
• 1. Costs
  2. › Party/party costs
  3. › Orders against non-parties
  4. › Personal costs orders against lawyers
  5. › Role of counsel
  6. › Whether briefing of experienced counsel entitled solicitor to benefit of inference that case was not hopeless
• 1. Costs
  2. › Party/party costs
  3. › Orders against non-parties
  4. › Personal costs orders against lawyers
  5. › Inherent jurisdiction
  6. › Whether inherent jurisdiction and statutory jurisdiction under s 99 governed by same principles

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