Catchwords
Practice and procedure – Costs – Order against non-party – Where non-party, for a contingency fee, funded impecunious corporate plaintiff without providing plaintiff with indemnity against adverse costs orders – Whether power of Supreme Court of New South Wales to order costs against non-party enlivened – Whether non-party had committed abuse of process of the court within the meaning of Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 42.3(2)(c).
Words and phrases – "abuse of process of the court", "occasioned by".
Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) – r 42.3.
Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) – s 98(1).