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Background In Chan Chi Wai v Chan Sau Wah [2019] HKCFI 1662 an application was made to vary a costs order nisi granted by the Hong Kong High Court regarding a dispute between five brothers over the legal and beneficial ownership of two houses in the New Territories (Original Proceedings). The applicants were two of … Read more
In Guest v Guest & Ors [2019] NZCA 64, the New Zealand Court of Appeal (overturning a first instance decision) held that the appellant’s costs should be met by (among others) an individual who was shareholder and director of a private trust company, despite him not personally being party to the proceedings. We discuss the … Read more
In Griffin v Higgs & Ors [2018] EWHC 2498 (Ch), the London High Court heard an appeal against a costs order which prevented the removed executors of a trust from being entitled to an indemnity from the estate in respect of their costs for the Part 8 Claim to remove them. The High Court dismissed … Read more
In Felicity Mary Mackley Blades v Richard Auberon Isaac and Christopher Allen Alexander [2016] EWHC 601 (Ch), a decision on costs handed down in March 2016, the English High Court agreed with the argument of the trustee defendants that where the trustees of a trust have acted in good faith, they should not have a costs order … Read more