Catchwords
Practice and procedure – Costs – Offers of compromise – Calderbank letter – Application to amend orders – Where applications for special leave determined, and orders for costs made in favour of respondents – Whether applicant's failure to engage with respondents' Calderbank offer unreasonable – Whether Calderbank offer was open for acceptance when application for special leave instituted or before significant costs incurred – Whether orders should be amended such that applicant pay costs on indemnity basis.
Words and phrases – "amend", "Calderbank letter", "costs", "High Court scale of costs", "indemnity costs", "orders".