Catchwords:

JUDICIAL REVIEW – remedies – materiality – review of appeal of costs assessment – incorrect application of repealed statute – application of the correct statute would have led to the same order – whether error jurisdictional – refusal of relief on discretionary grounds

COSTS – appeal – cost assessment – costs assessment appeal – repealed Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW) applied instead of Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 (NSW) – effect of savings provisions – Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW), s 30

COSTS – appeal to District Court – indemnity costs ordered – incorrect law relied on by successful party – correct law resulted in same substantive order – costs of successful party

WORDS AND PHRASES – “proceeding” – “proceedings to which the costs relate commenced” – Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Regulation 2015 (NSW), cl 59