WHEN ARE THERE GOOD REASONS NOT TO ORDER A PAYMENT ON ACCOUNT OF COSTS? WHAT IS A “REASONABLE FIGURE” FOR SUCH PAYMENT? THE ISSUES CONSIDERED IN THE HIGH COURT

When a party loses an application or a case and costs are not assessed immediately then the general principle is that the paying party will be ordered to pay "a reasonable sum on account of costs".  Here the court considered an argument that there a series of good reasons why a payment on account sh...