Category: Costs

NSW Defamation List Judge Lucy McCallum refuses to grant the Nine Network security for costs from Stephen Dank, despite his “comprehensive loss” against Nationwide News … Guardian Australia fails to get indemnity costs from a man whose action was permanently stayed ... more

Joe Hockey to pay 85 per cent of his costs in the defamation action he partially won against Fairfax Media over an investigation into his role in securing political donations … The treasurer’s bid to permanently injunct three publishers and the editor in chief of The Sydney Morning Herald fails ... more

Justice Richard White to decide between two wildly disparate views of costs culpability … Hockey’s lawyers ask for 95 per cent of his costs on an indemnity basis … Lawyers for Fairfax Media say Hockey should pay 60 per cent of the publisher’s costs, given that only three out of 15 matters complained of defamed the Commonwealth treasurer … Plaintiff’s offers of compromise rejected … Read all the submissions in full ... more

Nine years after the event, self-styled Muslim community spokesman Keysar Trad loses his bid to set aside a certificate of costs and judgment to the tune of $290,000 ... more

Book publisher succeeds in obtaining $500,000 security for costs in case brought by a man who claims he was accused of murdering his backpacker girlfriend … The plaintiff’s use of “top end of town” lawyers is a factor ... more

Feuding members of Newcastle’s Indian community run up costs of almost $600,000 over two emails before abandoning their legal representation … NSW District Court Judge Judith Gibson refuses the defendants a security for costs order ... more

A solicitor who sued Fairfax in defamation and won, has another victory, this time in relation to costs … NSW Supreme Court Justice McCallum awards indemnity costs and considers the case of the self-represented solicitor … Rebecca Gall reports ... more

Billionaire property developer who won his defamation action against a Greens councillor ordered to pay his own costs … The ABC wins costs against Wollongong Local Court over suppression orders set aside on appeal ... more

Billionaire businessman and federal MP Clive Palmer ordered to pay costs on an indemnity basis after two defamation actions calling for aggravated damages of nearly $10 million each are dismissed ... more

The high price of talkback radio … Caller found liable for 80 per cent of the settlement costs incurred by Newcastle radio station 2HD … NSW Supreme Court Justice David Davies says the station must “share some responsibility” ... more

Is the long and winding relationship between aggrieved author Jeremy Griffith and the ABC finally over? It seems so, after the NSW Court of Appeal rejected the self-proclaimed prophet’s bid for discrete costs against the broadcaster ... more

NSW District Court Judge Len Levy enters a verdict for the defendant in “a case that shouldn’t have been brought” ... Plaintiff failed to “prove” injury to his reputation … His instructing solicitor could be up for costs ... more