CHARNY & CHARNY

In *Charny & Charny*, Henderson J of the Family Court of Australia considered an application concerning the wife's costs. The specific nature of the underlying dispute between the parties is not detailed in the provided text, but the application before the court related to the assessment and payment of the wife's legal expenses.

The central legal issue before Henderson J was the quantum of the wife's costs for the application and the entitlement of her solicitors to deduct a specific sum from funds held in trust to satisfy those costs.

Henderson J determined that the wife's costs for the application should be assessed at $66,000. Consequently, the court ordered that the wife's solicitors were entitled to deduct this sum from monies they held in trust, thereby satisfying the wife's costs of the application.