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Award of costs as an exercise of discretion

Categories of cost

Distinction between costs awarded according to settled judicial principles and costs awarded in the exercise of discretion

Factors considered by the courts in making an award for costs

Factors to be considered in awarding costs

Guidelines for assessing costs

Nature of expenses compensated by an award of costs

Need for a claim for cost to be specifically pleaded, particularised and specially proved

Position of the law on the award of costs in criminal proceedings

Principles governing the award of costs

Principles governing the award of costs in matrimonial proceedings

Principles governing the award of damages in divorce proceedings

Principles governing the exercise of discretion in the award of costs

Purpose of the award of costs

Rationale for the award of costs

The aim of the award of costs

The basis for the award of costs

The essence of awarding costs

The objective of fixing costs

The party that pays costs in applications for rectification of trademarks

The principle that costs follow the event

The rule that a successful litigant in the legal battle is entitled to the award of costs of an action unless he misconducts himself in such a manner that deprives him of such an award

What amounts to reasonable cost

What the court should take into consideration in assessing costs

Whether a court can exercise its discretion to deprive a successful party of his costs

Whether a court can waive costs

Whether a Court is already functus officio at the time of making an award of costs

Whether a court is precluded from awarding costs to be paid in the course of the trial where counsel or parties agree in the summons for directions that costs be in the cause

Whether a judge who orders costs based on the history of the case can be said to have exercised her discretion judicially

whether cost can be awarded against a party who has been joined to an action despite the failure of the party to amend the writ to reflect his being joined to the action

Whether cost of action and cost of filing are the same thing

Whether costs awarded are meant to be punitive

Whether costs can be awarded against a public prosecutor

Whether costs can be awarded in a foreign currency

Whether costs in the action can be awarded together with general damages

Whether costs will be awarded in constitutional cases

Whether expenses incurred in the prosecution of a case should be taken into consideration when assessing cost

Whether it is in all cases that the party who won is awarded costs

Whether it is proper for the court to award lawyer's fees under a separate heading

Whether non-payment of cost can attract jail sentence

Whether the court can award costs at any stage of the proceedings

Whether the court can award the cost of litigation without it being specifically pleaded and particularised

Whether the husband must pay his wife costs in matrimonial proceedings

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