Questão jurídica principal
Whether the lower authority could depart from the default cost-allocation rule and apportion costs in equity.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The authority could deviate from the ordinary allocation rules and distribute costs at its discretion where special circumstances made allocation by outcome inequitable.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 107(1)(f) ZPO creates a general equitable exception to outcome-based allocation, and Art. 108 ZPO allows placing unnecessary costs on the party that caused them. The appellant had not fully prevailed and had made the proceedings unusually extensive and cumbersome.