http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/justice-on-the-cheap-could-be-coming/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/14/justice-on-the-cheap-could-be-coming/#comment-37807 Gavin Moodie Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:31:54 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/11/justice-on-the-cheap-could-be-coming/#comment-37807 Capping an award of costs might also discourage litigants with deep pockets from taking and appealing every interlocutory and minor point in the hope of exhausting an impecunious adversary. But I fear this wont be enough: the courts will have to award exemplary costs penalties for litigation tactics that turn out to have little merit. Capping an award of costs might also discourage litigants with deep pockets from taking and appealing every interlocutory and minor point in the hope of exhausting an impecunious adversary. But I fear this wont be enough: the courts will have to award exemplary costs penalties for litigation tactics that turn out to have little merit.

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