Bryan Staples at his former “earthquake hub on the Ferry Rd and Fitzgerald Ave corner in Christchurch. Justice Anne Hinton found against Pfisterer and ordered her to pay the $93,000. Claims Resolution and Grant Shand Solicitors then sought costs. In a decision released on Friday, Justice Hinton awarded Claims Resolution $150,000 for solicitor-client costs and $5061 for disbursements, and awarded Grant Shand costs of $62,834 and $7515 for disbursements.
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Lawyer Grant Shand, left, at a hearing in October 2020. Pfisterer bought her house in Fifield Tce, St Martins, in 2009 for $351,500. After it was badly damaged in the Canterbury earthquakes, she spent two years wrangling with Southern Response and the Earthquake Commission (EQC). Mould developed throughout the house and the walls and foundations had substantial cracks.
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