Read the full judgment text of FCMC 8680/2012 on BabelCite. This Family Court judgment was delivered on 9 April 2015 before Her Honour Judge Sharon D. Melloy.
Costs – Divorce – Unreasonable behaviour – Settlement negotiations – Order 62 RHC – Party and party basis – Whether appropriate order for costs bearing in mind outcome and without prejudice negotiations – Whether cost consequences arising out of nonexistent offer of compromise – No order up to 1 September 2013; 50% of wife's costs thereafter on party and party basis; Certificate for counsel; No order for costs of hearing.
Legal issues: Appropriate order for costs · Cost consequences of nonexistent offer
Outcome: Costs order modified; husband pays 50% of wife's costs from 2 September 2013 to 10 March 2015.
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