Indemnity costs order capped by judge as amount sought ‘does not appear to bear a proportionate relationship to the nature and extent of the litigation’.
The case was heard at Invercargill High Court in February.
NZX-listed farmland investor NZ Rural Land Co has won recovery of its legal costs from leaseholder Southern Farms after a dispute over illegal effluent discharge from a dairy property in Southland.
Details of the dispute were summarised in the High Court judgment of Justice Robert Osborne issued on
