438 FOREST ROAD HURSTVILLE

COSTS – specified gross sum costs order – where defendant made unmeritorious applications in the course of the proceedings – where defendant sent numerous inappropriate or irregular communications to the Court and to plaintiffs’ solicitors – baseless allegations of fraud or serious misconduct – whether the defendant’s conduct increased the costs of the proceedings – whether the defendant’s conduct suggests a costs assessment likely to be delayed and protracted – quantum of specified gross sum costs order – no challenge to evidence of quantum – specified gross sum costs order made

LAND LAW – strata title – owners corporation – meetings of owners corporation – validity of general meeting – resolutions of meeting invalid where chairperson not validly elected and not all lot owners invited to attend or vote – injunction in aid of a statutory right – proper administration of owners corporation interfered with – defendant restrained from holding herself out or acting as a member of strata committee unless and until duly elected

Costs - special circumstances, proceedings dismissed as incompetent, cost claimed where no legal representation at hearing, exercise of discretion where substantive issues raised on appeal not resolved.