'Abysmal arrogance and privilege': Balmain lawyer ordered to pay neighbour $300,000 | MWhitbourn
The gentrified suburb of Balmain boasts water views and "elites" in "elite homes", a Sydney judge has said, but it is also home to a bitter neighbourhood feud that has cost one woman more than $300,000 in damages and a judicial dressing-down.
He said the conduct of both parties was "a salutary lesson in how not to conduct relations with neighbours", "regardless of where it is the fault lies". While Justice Rothman noted Mr Cosco had pleaded guilty to this offence, he found the chief antagonist in the neighbourhood dispute was not Mr Cosco but Ms Hutley."Rather, it was [Ms Hutley] ... and her family that bullied the plaintiff and the workers on site.
The court heard a labourer employed by Mr Cosco scrawled the word "moot" on the footpath and other objects allegedly visible to his neighbours, an insult Ms Hutley's barrister said meant "old c--".But Justice Rothman said Mr Cosco was not personally responsible and there was no evidence he knew what the word meant.
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