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Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs]

Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs]

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AGLC: Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328
Case: [2009] VSC 328
Decision Date: 12 August 2009

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Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328

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Citation 1 (Para 38)

…02) P 92; Spiers v English [1907] P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 — Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38]. (c) In Probate suits, there are considerations that more readily affect the application of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) and the Uniform Civil…
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Citation 2 (Para 38)

…ye (1902) P 92; Spiers v English (1907) P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson V Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38]. The effect of these two rules, in this case, is that the Defendant must pay the Plaintiffs’ costs unless the court otherwise orders, and the c…
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Citation 3

…2016] NSWCA 242 Nicholson v Knaggs [2009] VSC 64 Nicolson v Knaggs (No 3 – Severance and Costs) [2009] VSC 328 Nock v Austin (1918) 25 CLR 519; [1918] HCA 73 Nye v Sewell (1894) 15 NSWR 18 Olsen v Mentink [2019] NSWSC 1299 Parfitt v Lawless (1872) LR2P&D 462 Pates v Craig & Public Trustee (Estate of the late Joyc…
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Citation 4 (Para 16)

…ifies an order for indemnity costs.[10] [9] Citing ibid 232–5 (Sheppard J). [10] Relying on Nicholson v Knaggs (No 3 – Severance and Costs) [2009] VSC 328.…
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Citation 5 (Para 38)

…02) P 92; Spiers v English [1907] P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38].…
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Citation 6 (Para 2)

…1902) P 92; Spiers v English [1907] P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38].…
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Citation 7 (Para 38)

…ye (1902) P 92; Spiers v English (1907) P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson V Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38]. The effect of these two rules, in this case, is that the Defendant must pay the Plaintiffs’ costs unless the court otherwise orders, and the c…
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Citation 8 (Para 38)

…ye (1902) P 92; Spiers v English (1907) P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson V Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38]. The effect of these two rules, in this case, is that the Defendant must pay the Plaintiffs’ costs unless the court otherwise orders, and the c…
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Citation 9 (Para 38)

…ye (1902) P 92; Spiers v English (1907) P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38]. 7. The effect of these two rules, in this case, is that the Defendant must pay the Plaintiffs' costs unless the court otherwise orders, and th…
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Citation 10 (Para 1)

…mstances, determining where the costs of the proceedings should fall is not without difficulty. As in Nicholson v Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328, at [31]:…
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Citation 11 (Para 38)

…Tye (1902) P 92; Spiers v English (1907) P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson V Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38].…
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Citation 12 (Para 1)

…Tye (1902) P 92; Spiers v English (1907) P 122; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216 at 217; Nicholson V Knaggs [No 3 - Severance And Costs] [2009] VSC 328 at [38].…
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Citation 13 (Para 1)

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Citation 14 (Para 1)

…wist v Tye [1902] P 92, 97–98; Spiers v English [1907] P 122, 123; Middlebrook v Middlebrook (1962) 36 ALJR 216, 217; Nicholson v Knaggs (No 3) [2009] VSC 328 [38].…
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Citation 15 (Para 1)

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Citation 16

…[5] Brown v Sandhurst Trustees Ltd (No 2) [2009] VSC 406 (4 June 2009) [3]–[12] (Mandie J). See also Nicholson v Knaggs (No 3) [2009] VSC 328 (12 August 2009) [43] (Vickery J); Zivojin v Babic (No 2) [2013] VSC 113 (20 February 2013); Steel v Ifrah (No 2) [2013] VSC 167 (30 April 2013); Veall v Veall (No 2) [2014…
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Citation 17

…[2] The authorities are summarised in Nicholson v Knaggs (No 3) [2009] VSC 328 [38]-[48].…
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Citation 18 (Para 1)

…54 NSWLR 503 at 517 – 518 [32] – [36]; Macdonald Holdings (Qld) Pty Ltd v Nikolas [2007] NSWSC 552 at [69]. [48] See: Nicholson v Knaggs (No. 3) [2009] VSC 328.…

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Citation 3

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Citation 5

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Citation 8

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Citation 9

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Citation 10

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Citation 11

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Citation 12

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Citation 13 (Para 1)

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Citation 14

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Citation 15 (Para 1)

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Citation 16

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Citation 17 (Para 1)

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Citation 18 (Para 1)

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Citation 19 (Para 1)

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Citation 20

…lied, as, for example, where by fraud or mistake there has been included in the instrument words which in truth were not part of the testator's will: Rhodes v Rhodes (1882) 7 App Cas 192, at p198: "In that case you may strike out the passage, because he did not know it was there or intend that it should be, and therefore…

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