This costs decision followed successful rule 1(8) motions striking a respondent's third attempt to set aside prior family law orders.
The court held that the self-represented applicant and the intervenors were the successful parties and were entitled to costs, but limited the scope of the award to events arising from the third attempt commenced in December 2021.
The court declined to address claimed set-off or costs relating to earlier 2018 and 2019 attendances because those matters were reserved to other judges or were not within the scope of the motions before it.
The self-represented applicant received compensation for her time, and the intervenors received elevated costs on the equivalent of a substantial indemnity basis because the respondent's materials contained repeated offensive, inflammatory, and unsubstantiated allegations amounting to bad faith.
