Boxall and Boxall (No. 2)

In *Boxall and Boxall (No. 2)*, Justice Mullane of the Family Court of Australia considered an application for costs following property and children's proceedings between a husband and wife. The specific dispute before the court concerned the quantum and basis of the wife's entitlement to costs.

The primary legal issue before the court was to determine the extent to which the husband should be ordered to pay the wife's costs, and on what basis, in relation to proceedings that had occurred after a specific date. This involved considering the appropriate scale of costs to be awarded.

Justice Mullane ordered that the husband pay the wife's reasonable costs on a solicitor/client basis. This order applied to costs incurred in the property and children's proceedings after 7 November 2005. The quantum of these costs was to be determined by agreement between the parties, or failing agreement, as determined under the Family Law Rules or by further order of the Court.