Following a family law trial, both parties sought costs.
The applicant claimed costs of $133,961.20, while the respondent claimed costs of $379,454.26.
The court found that the parties had spent between $500,000 and $600,000 litigating issues where they were only marginally apart in their settlement offers.
Concluding that both parties engaged in unreasonable litigation behaviour and incurred expenses grossly disproportionate to the value of the disputed issues, the court ordered each party to bear their own costs.
