The court determined costs following a lengthy custody and access dispute where the applicant mother was found to have emotionally abused the children and engaged in severe parental alienation against the respondent father.
The court found the mother acted in bad faith throughout the proceedings, litigating with impunity to excise the father from the children's lives.
Applying Rule 24(8) of the Family Law Rules, the court awarded the successful father full recovery costs fixed at $400,000.
