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2009-01-06 | permalink
Biowatch (South Africa) takes its battle for GE crop trial costs to Constitutional Court
A NONGOVERNMENTAL organisation that won a court battle but was ordered to pay legal costs will now approach the Constitutional Court to argue why it should not pay the legal costs. [...] In February 2005, acting Judge Eric Dunn ruled that, although the general rule was that the costs should follow the result, he felt that the manner in which some of the trust’s requests for information were formulated had convinced him that it should not be granted a costs order in its favour.
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2009-01-06 | permalink
Biowatch (South Africa) takes its battle for GE crop trial costs to Constitutional Court
A NONGOVERNMENTAL organisation that won a court battle but was ordered to pay legal costs will now approach the Constitutional Court to argue why it should not pay the legal costs. [...] In February 2005, acting Judge Eric Dunn ruled that, although the general rule was that the costs should follow the result, he felt that the manner in which some of the trust’s requests for information were formulated had convinced him that it should not be granted a costs order in its favour.
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