Judge up for costs in false imprisonment case, but not for abandoned expert

Legal Ethics 2023-11-02 11:00 pm By Sam Matthews | Melbourne

A man awarded $300,000 after he was unlawfully imprisoned for contempt has won his legal costs from the judge who jailed him. But a court has rejected his bid to recoup the costs paid to a damages expert in his case, finding he gave her “incomplete, inaccurate and unreliable” instructions.