CITATION:

Gillespie & Ors v Gillespie [2013] QCA 126

PARTIES:

GEOFFREY BRUCE GILLESPIE
(first appellant)
WILLIAM BRUCE GILLESPIE
(second appellant)
MICHAEL PELDAN AND MORGAN LANE ATF THE ESTATE OF ANNETTE MIRIAM MAREE RODGERS (FORMERLY GREEN) (A BANKRUPT)
(third appellant)
v
GLORIA DAWN GILLESPIE
(respondent)

FILE NO:

Appeal No 8193 of 2012
DC No 5 of 2011

DIVISION:

Court of Appeal

PROCEEDING:

General Civil Appeal – Further Order

ORIGINATING COURT:

District Court at Mackay

DELIVERED ON:

24 May 2013

DELIVERED AT:

Brisbane

HEARING DATE:

Heard on the papers

JUDGES:

Margaret McMurdo P, White JA and Margaret Wilson J
Judgment of the Court

ORDER:

The appellants are to pay the respondent’s costs of the appeal on the standard basis.

CATCHWORDS:

PROCEDURE – COSTS – GENERAL RULE – COSTS FOLLOW THE EVENT – COSTS OF APPEAL – GENERALLY – where the appeal was dismissed – where the parties were given leave to make submissions as to the costs of the appeal in accordance with paragraph 52 of Practice Direction No 3 of 2013 – where the respondent submitted that costs should follow the event – where the appellants made no submissions as to costs – whether costs should follow the event

COUNSEL:

No appearance by the appellant
No appearance by the respondent, the respondent’s submissions were heard on the papers

SOLICITORS:

S B Wright & Wright and Condie for the first and second appellants
Tucker & Cowen for the third appellant
Macrossan & Amiet for the respondent