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Costs of ancillary relief
  • 4 Nov 2015

    LWL v. LMF

    Citation
    LWL v. LMF
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC14442/2012

    The court found the respondent to be the overall more successful party at trial, the petitioner had failed to give full and frank disclosure and failed to respond to the respondent's without prejudice/Calderbank proposals (notably the 20 December 2013 proposal which was close to the eventual outcome); balancing these factors against the respondent's earlier attempt to secure a larger share, the court exercised its discretion to vary the order nisi and awarded costs to the respondent from 20 December 2013 inclusive, taxed on party and party basis if not agreed, with no order as to costs before…