HD v NN [2023] NZDT 331 (3 August 2023) [pdf, 217 KB]
...6. HD also says that NN made an application for a restraining order against him and he had to incur significant legal costs to defend that. He seeks an order that NN is liable to pay his legal costs. 7. Finally HD seeks an order that NN pay the filing fee for this claim. The claims that NN caused damage to HD’s property 8. The law that applies is the law of tort, under which a person can be liable for damage caused as a result of wrongful interference with the property of anot...