The reluctant judge and a new precedent on court costs
Court rules in-house lawyers can't get costs.
Victoria Young Mon, 14 May 2018
Last week must have been a trying one for Associate Judge Roger Bell.
On Monday, notorious developer Ee Kuoh (Augustine) Lau came before him in court. He owed Auckland Council almost $1 million and it wanted him bankrupted.
The judge could have declared him insolvent –had Lau not claimed
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