The applicant's lawyer brought an emergency ex parte application to enjoin a hospital from withdrawing life support from a patient.
The court initially granted the order but rescinded it the next day after the hospital and treating physician provided evidence that the patient was brain dead and the family had consented to withdrawing support.
The hospital and physician sought costs personally against the applicant's lawyer.
The court found the lawyer brought the application without instructions, submitted misleading material, and caused costs to be incurred unnecessarily.
The court ordered the lawyer to personally pay $15,000 in costs to the respondents.
