Lambie Trustee Limited v Prudence Anne Addleman - SC 118/2019
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Summary
Result
B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct to reject the applicant’s claims of legal advice privilege and litigation privilege respectively.
C In all other respects, the application for leave to appeal is dismissed.
4 March 2020
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A With the clarification that the orders for disclosure made by the Court of Appeal do not extend to legal advice given from June 2015 in connection with this litigation and with leave reserved to Lambie Trustee Ltd to revert to this Court in relation to advice received after 7 November 2014 and before June 2015, the appeal is dismissed.
B Costs are reserved.
1 June 2021
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A Mrs Addleman is to receive out of the Lambie Trust her actual costs in relation to the appeal to this Court plus usual disbursements (to be fixed by the Registrar if necessary). We allow for second counsel. Mrs Addleman is to provide a schedule of the costs incurred to Lambie Trustee Ltd within 10 working days of the date of delivery of this judgment. Any issue as to the reasonableness of the costs sought is to be determined by the Registrar.
B Lambie Trustee Ltd is not entitled to any indemnity for costs and expenses in connection with the appeal to this Court, including both its own legal fees and any solicitor client costs and disbursements due to Mrs Addleman.
C Lambie Trustee Ltd is to reimburse the Lambie Trust (from funds not sourced from the Trust) the costs awarded by this Court on the appeal.
D The orders of this Court at B and C, above, apply to the award of costs in the Court of Appeal.
E Mrs Addleman is entitled to costs on a 2B basis together with reasonable disbursements in relation to costs in the High Court. Orders B and C, above, apply to the award of costs in that Court.
17 February 2023
Date of Hearing
02 December 2020
Judges
William Young, Glazebrook, O'Regan, Ellen France and Williams JJ
Hearing Transcripts
Related Documents
High Court decision — ADDLEMAN v LAMBIE TRUSTEE LIMITED [2017] NZHC 2054 [25 August 2017]
Court of Appeal decision — ADDLEMAN v LAMBIE TRUSTEE LTD [2019] NZCA 480 [4 October 2019]
Leave judgment - leave granted — LAMBIE TRUSTEE LIMITED v PRUDENCE ANNE ADDLEMAN [2020] NZSC 14 [4 March 2020] (PDF 162 KB)
Substantive judgment — LAMBIE TRUSTEE LIMITED v PRUDENCE ANNE ADDLEMAN [2021] NZSC 54 [1 June 2021] (PDF 208 KB)
Supreme court decision — Costs: LAMBIE TRUSTEE LIMITED v PRUDENCE ANNE ADDLEMAN [2023] NZSC 7 [17 February 2023] (PDF 227 KB)
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