Manukau Golf Club Inc v Shoye Venture Ltd - [2013] 1 NZLR 305

Courts — Judgments and orders — Failure to make order for costs — Whether reasons required — Observation.

Practice and procedure — Costs — Successful appellant refused costs in appellate court — Whether sufficient that process had gone wrong in court below — Whether any disentitling conduct on part of successful appellant — Correct course for respondents not wishing to incur costs on appeal — Whether reasons required for departure from usual rule that costs follow event — Court of Appeal (Civil) Rules 2005, rr 53, 53A(a) and 53B(1).

Practice and procedure — Reasons for judgment — Whether and when reasons required in respect of orders for costs — Observation.