Ettridge and Somers

The parties, Ettridge and Somers, appeared before Thornton J in the Supreme Court of South Australia concerning costs orders following pre-trial hearings and a trial conducted between 29 May and 2 June 2017. The specific nature of the dispute that led to these hearings and trial is not detailed in the provided text.

The central legal issue before the court was the determination of the costs to be awarded to the parties following the concluded proceedings. The court was required to decide whether to order one party to pay the costs of the other, or if each party should bear their own costs.

Thornton J ordered that each party bear their own costs in relation to the pre-trial hearings and the trial. This decision indicates that the court did not find sufficient grounds to depart from the general rule that costs follow the event, nor did it exercise its discretion to order otherwise in favour of one party. The court's reasoning for this specific order is not elaborated upon in the provided text.