Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 3054/2002 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 19 August 2003.
1. Mr Yip, in a series of brave submissions, has sought to persuade me that I ought to depart from the usual order on costs which appears in Order 62 of the Rules of the District Court, and what he suggests are that two of the three exceptions which would, or might, at least, persuade a judge to take another course, are present: firstly, that the defendant has brought about the litigation or has done some wrongful act in the course of the transaction of which the plaintiff complains.