TY - BOOK AU - Bullock,David AU - Mullins,Tim TI - The law of costs in New Zealand SN - 9781988546193 U1 - 347.930572 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Wellington PB - LexisNexis NZ Limited KW - Lawyers KW - Fees KW - New Zealand N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - "The discretionary nature of the costs jurisdiction can obscure the important legal principles that underlie its everyday operation. The Law of Costs in New Zealand will assist lawyers and judges to reduce errors on costs matters, improve the quality of their arguments, and to promote agreement by reducing misconceived costs disputes that ought to be resolved without judicial intervention. Using the civil costs regime established by the High Court Rules as a starting point, the book then goes on to examines costs in the appellate and inferior courts, criminal cases, and in arbitrations"--Publisher information ER -