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AGLC: Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 581
Case: [2010] VSC 581
Decision Date: 15 DECEMBER 2010

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Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 581

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Challenger Property Asset Management Pty Ltd v Stonnington City Council (No 2) [2012] VSC 67

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Citation 1 (Para 16)

…ented, will suffer the limitations of a lack of knowledge of the law, an unfamiliarity with court practices and the risk of lack of objectivity. [10] [2010] VSC 581 at [49].…
Meshram v Bing Lee Electrics Pty Ltd (Costs) [2024] FedCFamC2G 543
Citation 2 (Para 15)

…In Roads Corp v Love [2010] VSC 581 at [49] Vickery J observed that: A relevant factor in the consideration of an award of costs will arise where a party in the litigation is self-represented. In the usual case, such a person, while having every right to proceed unrepresented, will suffer the limitations of a lac…
Express Cargo Services Pty Ltd v Mysko (No 2) [2023] SASC 133
Citation 3 (Para 16)

…[28] Edmonds v Barrington Winstanley Group Pty Ltd (No 2) [2023] NSWCA 197 at [6] per Meagher, Leeming and Stern JJA. [29] Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 581 at [69] per Vickery J; Rickard Constructions Pty Ltd v Rickard Hails Moretti Pty Ltd [2005] NSWSC 481 at [31] per McDougall J. [30] Edmonds v Barringto…
Williams, William v Williams, William (No 2) [2023] NSWDC 69
Citation 4 (Para 39)

…r 2022 offer. Courts have awarded indemnity costs against litigants in person for failure to accept a Calderbank offer: e.g. Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 581.…
Mason v Head, Transport for Victoria [2021] VSCA 19
Citation 5 (Para 1)

…ry to the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources v Stella (2016) 215 LGERA 314, 322–325 [33]–[41] (Bell J); Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, 476 [113]–[115] (Osborn J); Roads Corporation v Schembri (2009) 28 VR 229, 233–4 [24]–[28] (Osborn J).…
Secretary to the Department of Transport v Provan's Timber Pty Ltd (No 2) [2020] VSCA 258
Citation 6

…ority (No 2) (2005) 13 VR 435, Roads Corporation v Thomas James Love [2010] VSC 154 and Roads Corporation v Thomas James Love [2010] VSC 581. Please accept receipt of the Counter-Offer on behalf of your clients and advise us whether they accept this Counter-Offer.…
Anderson v Commissioner of Highways (No 2) [2018] SASC 121
Citation 7

…Frankston (No 1) [1969] VR 350; Secretary to the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources v Driver [2015] VCAT 813; Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451; Bailey v Derby Corporation [1965] 1 All ER 443; Patterson v British Colombia (Minister of Transportation and Highways) (1997) 62 LCR 89; Brewarran…
Secretary to the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport & Resources v Avid Property Group Nominees Pty Ltd (Formerly CRG Nominees Pty Ltd) [2017] VSCA 136
Citation 8 (Para 1)

…oads Corporation [2008] VCAT 838; R K Morgan Holdings Pty Ltd v Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (1992) 77 LGRA 102, 114–15 (Gobbo J); Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 173 LGERA 1.…
Gold Coast City Council v Dobson [2014] QLAC 6
Citation 9

…d Pty Ltd v MGICA (1992) Ltd (1999) 199 CLR 413; [1999] HCA 25, cited Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, considered Spencer v Commonwealth (1907) 5 CLR 418; [1907] HCA 82, considered Stanfield v Brisbane City Council (1990) 70 LGRA 392, cited Sunland Group Ltd v Townsville City Council [2012] QCA 30, cited Turner v Minist…
Love v Roads Corporation [2014] VSCA 129
Citation 10 (Para 1)

…This appeal is the latest in a series of cases concerning the compulsory acquisition by the Roads Corporation of land owned by Mr Love in Epping. The Roads Corporation has compulsorily acquired land from Mr Love to widen Cooper Street, Epping,[1] and to construct the Craigieburn Bypass.[2] The acqui…
Love v Roads Corporation [2012] VSCA 269
Citation 11

…[1] Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 581.…
Kingston v Head, Transport for Victoria; Jomaring Pty Ltd v Head, Transport for Victoria (No 2) [2024] VSC 231
Citation 12 (Para 1)

…The Authority submitted that the 2021 Particulars of Offer constitute the relevant offers for the purposes of s 91(1)(a) because they are properly characterised as offers ‘formally [made] in the context of the regime for compensation set out in the LAC Act’.[111] [111]Respondent’s Reply Submissions …
Head, Transport for Victoria v Lantrak Developments Pty Ltd (Costs) [2021] VSC 863
Citation 13 (Para 1)

…As the Court of Appeal explained in Secretary to the Department of Transport v Provan’s Timber Pty Ltd (No 2) ,[3] there is a long-standing recognition in Victoria of the difference between claimants under the LAC Act and ordinary litigants, and a corresponding ‘tilt’ in favour of claimants in the e…
Head, Transport for Victoria v Lantrak Developments Pty Ltd (No 2) [2021] VSC 774
Citation 14 (Para 1)

…J), approved in Kettering Pty Ltd v Noosa Shire Council (2004) 78 ALJR 1022, [31], and applied in numerous decisions of this Court: see, eg, Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, [774]; Secretary to the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources v MG Pastoral Company Pty Ltd (2016) 214 LGERA 413, [80]…
Mareangareu v Patton (in his capacity as Chief Commissioner of Police) [2021] VSC 15
Citation 15 (Para 1)

…uty Commissioner is expressed in s 22(1) in a passive voice. [26] Roads Corporation v Dacakis (1995) 2 VR 508, 535–7 (‘ Dacakis ’) cited in Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, 545 [775] and Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change v Morton [2017] VSC 774 [40]–[42] (‘ Morton ’).…
Kilpatrick v Head, Transport for Victoria [2020] VSC 53
Citation 16 (Para 1)

…o the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources v Stella (2016) 215 LGERA 314, 322–325 [33]–[41] (Bell J); Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, 476 [113]–[115] (Osborn J).…
Plunkett v Roads Corporation (No 2) [2019] VSC 230
Citation 17 (Para 1)

…The Plunketts submitted that there is a presumption that, in cases where s 91 applies, a claimant will receive an order for the claimant’s costs.[3] VicRoads submitted that there is no such broad presumption. It contended for a narrower presumption, that an affected landowner should not have to bear…
Secretary to the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources v Caradi Pty Ltd (No 2) [2019] VSC 61
Citation 18 (Para 1)

…cussions of offers of compromise pursuant to the rules of Court or Calderbank offers and the exercise of the Courts discretion.[8] [8]See Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 551 (Osborn J); Secretary to the Department of Business and Innovation v Murdesk Investments (No 2) [2012] VSC 586 (Emerton J); Wilson v Melbourne Water (N…
Wilson v Melbourne Water (No 2) [2018] VSC 776
Citation 19 (Para 1)

…I do not consider that the claimants’ conduct can be described as making excessive claims. While each case requiring the exercise of a costs discretion is different, this case is not one which can be described as ‘in a fundamental sense speculative’ and facing ‘very real difficulties in establishing…
Wilson v Melbourne Water [2018] VSC 555
Citation 20 (Para 1)

…iberal estimate.[72] [71] Crompton v Commissioner of Highways (1973) 5 SASR 301; Holcim (Aust) Pty. Ltd. v Valuer-General [2009] NSWLEC 225. [72] Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451 [122] (Osborn J).…
Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change v Morton [2017] VSC 774
Citation 21 (Para 1)

…ick Tyler v Commissioner of Main Roads [2015] WASCA 82, [38]–[39]; Town of East Freemantle v Cornell (2005) 138 LGERA 180, 194 [67]; Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, 545 [774].…
Pierides (a minor who sues by his Litigation Guardian Emile Pierides) v Monash Health (formerly known as Southern Health) [2017] VSC 342
Citation 22 (Para 1)

…ed and it is inappropriate that the content of any such conference be ventilated for the first time during the trial.[5] [5] Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 581.…
Secretary to the Dept of Economic Development Jobs, Transport and Resources v CRG Nominees Pty Ltd [2016] VSC 301
Citation 23

…[25](2008) 18 VR 329, [12]. See also Murdesk Investments Pty Ltd v Roads Corporation [2006] VSC 363, [26]; Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, [87].…
Secretary, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources v Stella [2016] VSC 260
Citation 24 (Para 1)

…oss but is not entitled to receive ‘more than fair compensation’.[2] [1] Horn v Sunderland Corporation [1941] 2 KB 26, 49 (Scott LJ). [2] Roads Corporation v Love (2010) 31 VR 451, 470 [83] (Osborn J).…
Challenger Property Asset Management Pty Ltd v Stonnington City Council (No 2) [2012] VSC 67
Citation 25

…stralia Inc v President Councillors and Ratepayers of The Shire of Morwell [1986] VR 289 – Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 581 – DPP v Ali (No. 2) (2009) 25 VR 656 – Main-Road Property Group Pty Ltd v Pelligra & Sons Pty Ltd [2007] VSC 43.…

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Macedon Ranges Shire Council v Thompson [2009] VSCA 209
Citation 1 (Para 15)

…rted FCA, 9 February 1993), Murdaca v Maisano [2004] VSCA 123 at [40]; Aljade and MKIC v OCBC [2004] VSC 351; Macedon Ranges Shire Council v Thompson [2009] VSCA 209 at [15]; Auswest Timbers Pty Ltd v Secretary to the Department of Sustainability and the Environment [2010] VSC 513.…
Aon Risk Services Australia Ltd v Australian National University [2009] HCA 27
Citation 2

…[32] Aon Risk Services Australia Limited v Australian National University [2009] HCA 27per Gummow, Hayne, Crennan, Kiefel and Bell JJ at [113]…
Piscopo v Not Lawyers [2008] FCA 1907
Citation 3

…[36](1988) 81 ALR 397 at 401…
Porter v Lachlan Shire Council No 2 [2006] NSWCA 252
Citation 4 (Para 8)

…[49]Citing Porter v Lachlan Shire Council No 2 [2006] NSWCA 252 at [8].…
Hazeldene's Chicken Farm Pty Ltd v Victorian Workcover Authority (No 2) [2005] VSCA 298
Citation 5 (Para 1)

…is called upon to determine whether that course was unreasonable, that it should ordinarily have regard to at least the following matters:[31] [31](2005) 13 VR 435 at 442 [25].…
Murdaca v Maisano [2004] VSCA 123
Citation 6 (Para 40)

…) in J-Corp Pty Ltd v Australian Builders Labourers Federated Union of Workers Western Australia (unreported FCA, 9 February 1993), Murdaca v Maisano [2004] VSCA 123 at [40]; Aljade and MKIC v OCBC [2004] VSC 351; Macedon Ranges Shire Council v Thompson [2009] VSCA 209 at [15]; Auswest Timbers Pty Ltd v Secretary…
Lipohar v The Queen [1999] HCA 65
Citation 7

…[16][2010] VSC 154 at [23]; citing Lipohar v R (1999) [1999] HCA 65; (1999) 200 CLR 485, 525, [100]…
Craig v South Australia [1995] HCA 58
Citation 8 (Para 1)

…been taken into account: Coastal Estates Pty Ltd v Bass Shire [1994] 1 VR 210 at 218 to 219 per Gobbo J; Roads Corporation v Dacakis [1995] 2 VR 508 at 545, per Batt J and Roads Corporation v Onans (No 2) [2001] VSC 160, per Balmford J, at [5]…
Roads Corporation v Love [2010] VSC 537
Citation 9 (Para 1)

…e payable by the Applicant (“the Corporation”) to the Respondent (“Mr Love”), calculated by the addition of the following components: [1] [2010] VSC 537…
Auswest Timbers Pty Ltd v Secretary to the Department of Sustainability and Environment [2010] VSC 513
Citation 10

…Ranges Shire Council v Thompson [2009] VSCA 209 at [15]; Auswest Timbers Pty Ltd v Secretary to the Department of Sustainability and the Environment [2010] VSC 513.…
Charles Blackman v Peter Gant [No 2] [2010] VSC 246
Citation 11 (Para 1)

…ise made under O.26 of the Rules on the other, derived from Charles Blackman and Ors v Peter Gant and Anor [27] which were noted as follows:[28] [27] [2010] VSC 246 [28] Supra at [9 – 14]…
Roads Corporation v Love (No 2) [2010] VSC 154
Citation 12 (Para 1)

…orporation v Love [17] “that the provisions of what is now styled r.26.08 are not applicable to cases of this kind”. Rule 26.08 provides:[18] [17][2010] VSC 154 [18] Supra at [17] 26.08 Costs consequences of failure to accept (1)This Rule applies to an offer of compromise which has not been accepted at the time o…
Foster v Galea (No 2) [2008] VSC 331
Citation 13

…[48][2008] VSC 331, [11].…
Vink v Tuckwell (No 3) [2008] VSC 316
Citation 14 (Para 1)

…thorities dealing with circumstances in which a non-represented litigant might be subject to an order for indemnity costs:[40] [39] Supra at [17] [40](2008) 67 ACSR 547 at [103 – 107]…
Murdesk Investments Pty Ltd v Roads Corporation [2007] VSC 175
Citation 15 (Para 1)

…ed, do not displace obligation of the Court to give proper effect to the language of the statute. [3] Murdesk Investments Pty Ltd v Roads Corporation [2007] VSC 175 at [23] to [25]…
Aljade and MKIC v OCBC [2004] VSC 351
Citation 16

…[30][2004] VSC 351 per Redlich J.…
Roads Corporation v Onans (No 2) [2001] VSC 160
Citation 17 (Para 1)

…94] 1 VR 210 at 218 to 219 per Gobbo J; Roads Corporation v Dacakis [1995] 2 VR 508 at 545, per Batt J and Roads Corporation v Onans (No 2) [2001] VSC 160, per Balmford J, at [5]…

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