Legal costs Insights
Rose Legal CPD Seminar Series: Supporting Legal Excellence Through Professional Development
At Rose Legal, we're committed to supporting the legal profession through practical, CPD-accredited education. Through our seminars, we provide practitioners with access to real-world case experience and expert-led insights in the niche and technical field of legal costs ...
Obtaining costs orders in the Land and Environment Court: Sader v Elgammal [2025] NSWCA 111
In this Insight, Legal Costs Consultant Kieran Pulley of Rose Legal Costing examines the recent Court of Appeal decision in Sader v Elgammal [2025] NSWCA 111, which reinforces the discretionary nature of costs orders in Class 4 proceedings before the Land and Environment Court ...
Why Instruct a Legal Costs Consultant in a Costs Assessment
In this latest insight, Legal Costs Manager Darius Self examines a case that highlights the importance of proportionality, reasonableness, and timing when pursuing costs in litigation. Even where damages awarded fall short of expectations, a party may still achieve some success. Our latest blog unpacks the costs assessment process and ...
From Objection to Outcome: How Rose Legal Achieved a 99.96% Costs Recovery on an Ordinary Basis
In this latest insight, Legal Costs Manager Darius Self examines a case that highlights the importance of proportionality, reasonableness, and timing when pursuing costs in litigation. Even where damages awarded fall short of expectations, a party may still achieve some success. Our latest blog unpacks the costs assessment process and ...
Understanding Lau v Anglican Community Services (No. 2) [2025] NSWDC 211: Nominal Damages and the discretion to award costs
In this Insight, Rose Legal explores the recent decision in Lau v Anglican Community Services (No. 2) [2025] NSWDC 211, where the New South Wales District Court exercised its discretion to award costs despite the plaintiff receiving only nominal damages. The case raises important considerations for legal practitioners around the ...
