Read the full judgment text of FCMC 549/2020 on BabelCite. This Family Court judgment was delivered on 22 December 2023 before Her Honour Judge Elaine Liu.
Costs – Children matters – General practice no order as to costs – Departure for reprehensible or unreasonable conduct – Ex parte application – Material non-disclosure – Inter partes hearing – District Court – Matrimonial Causes – Petitioner Mother vs Respondent Father – No order as to costs made for either ex parte or inter partes hearing – Conduct not found sufficiently reprehensible or unreasonable – No material non-disclosure found
Legal issues: Whether parents' conduct was reprehensible or unreasonable · Whether the costs of the ex parte hearing shall be different from the costs of the hearing inter partes
Outcome: No order as to costs of Mother’s Summons, including the costs of the ex parte hearing on 31 August 2023 and inter partes hearing on 13 September 2023.
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