Consolidated Meat Group Pty Ltd v Bolton

[2004] QSC 474

SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND

CITATION:	Consolidated Meat Group Pty Ltd v Bolton [2004] QSC 474
PARTIES:	CONSOLIDATED MEAT GROUP PTY LTD (Applicant) v PETER RONALD BOLTON (Respondent0
FILE NO/S:	142 of 2004
DIVISION:	Trial
PROCEEDING:
ORIGINATING COURT:	Supreme Court, Cairns
DELIVERED ON:	23 December 2004
DELIVERED AT:	Cairns
HEARING DATE:
JUDGE:	Jones J
ORDER:	No order for costs
COUNSEL:	Ms R Treston for the applicant Mr M Glen for the respondent
SOLICITORS:	Bruce Thomas Lawyers on behalf of the applicant The Law Office on behalf of the defendant

1. When I delivered my reasons for judgment on 28 June 2004 I invited the parties to make submissions for costs within 14 days.  The solicitors for the defendant responded advising that as the application was made pursuant to s 286 of the WorkCover (Queensland) Act and as the claimant had sustained a “non-certificate” injury that no order for costs could be made.  See s 325(1).

1. The solicitors for the applicant/plaintiff have accepted this to be a correct statement of the position and do not make any submission seeking an order for costs.

1. In the end result there will be no order for costs.