Glaister v Amalgamated Dairies Ltd - [2004] 2 NZLR 606

Practice and procedure — Costs — Whether purpose of statutory costs scheme to secure two-thirds of actual and reasonable costs to successful party — Whether High Court had unnecessarily fettered its discretion in failing to recognise that purpose — Whether appellants had been properly heard in relation to a proper allowance of time for trial preparation — High Court Rules, RR 46 and 47.