This case defied all the laws of gravity and no-one (except Luke and Belinda) thought it wouldn't succeed. I would have thought that when the case was dropped by HRNSW Luke would have been entitled to costs simply by the fact that he had no case to answer (through some weird changes that occurred in the samples). Was HRNSW just being bloody-minded when it came to reimbursing costs when there was an opportunity to do so?