Auckland Standards Committee v Castles [2013] NZLCDT 53 [pdf, 277 KB]
...How the legal costs were funded [45] Mr and Mrs W are a retired couple, and while Mr W still had his insurance agency at the time Mr Castles began acting for him, it was sold not long after. It would seem that this couple have used all of their resources, even selling items in order to fund the early fees accounts for the litigation. They had borrowed in order to fund the remedial work for their home and without this having been recovered as expected through the litigation they we...