Stemson v AMP General Insurance (NZ) Ltd - [2007] 1 NZLR 289

Practice and procedure — Appeals to Privy Council — Practice of the Board in relation to concurrent findings of fact in Courts below — Whether Board’s practice applied — Whether could be demonstrated that finding erroneous — Whether High Court entitled to conclude that appellant had set fire to villa in respect of which he had made insurance claim.

Practice and procedure — Costs — Whether award of costs on indemnity basis appropriate — Whether abuse of process to subject respondent to further appeal in face of concurrent findings of fact in Courts below.