[2025] NZLVT 019 – Flath v Minister for Land Information (9 May 2025) [pdf, 505 KB]
...discretion the claimant should bear their own costs or a proportion of them and they should pay the costs of the respondent or a proportion of them. In this regard special reasons and reasonableness are relevant factors. The suggestion that s 90(2) forms a mandatory requirement that there can be no payment to the claimant and must be the payment of all the reasonable costs of the respondent is not supported by any other authority. Gavigan was clear that even where the grounds are...