The board declined to make an order for costs against the unsuccessful appellants where they were not pursuing the proceedings out of any motive of private gain, but ‘in the interests of taonga which is an important part of the heritage of New Zealand’, and the judgments in the Court of Appeal had left an undesirable lack of clarity in an important area of the law which it was important for the Privy Council to examine.
Judges:
Lord Lloyd of Berwick
Citations:
[1994] 1 AC 466
Cited by:
Cited – Corner House Research, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry CA 1-Mar-2005
The applicant sought to bring an action to challenge new rules on approval of export credit guarantees. The company was non-profit and founded to support investigation of bribery. It had applied for a protected costs order to support the . .
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Costs, Commonwealth
Updated: 30 April 2022; Ref: scu.223261