Leos and Leos

In *Leos and Leos*, heard by McClelland DCJ, the father filed a Contravention Application on 14 September 2018. The mother sought to have certain items within this application struck out, and the court was required to determine the merits of the father's application.

The central legal issues before the court were whether specific paragraphs of the father's Contravention Application had reasonable prospects of success and, consequently, whether the entire application should be dismissed. The court was tasked with assessing the legal sufficiency of the allegations made by the father.

McClelland DCJ reasoned that items 6 and 7 of the Contravention Application lacked the necessary particularity and therefore had no reasonable prospects of success. Applying principles of procedural fairness and the requirements for pleading contraventions, the court determined that these allegations were insufficient to proceed. Furthermore, the court found that items 8 and 9 of the application, pursuant to section 45A of the *Family Law Act 1975* (Cth), also had no reasonable prospects of success.

Consequently, the court ordered that items 6 and 7 of the Contravention Application be struck out. The court further decreed, under section 45A of the *Family Law Act 1975* (Cth), that items 8 and 9 had no reasonable prospects of success. The entirety of the father's Contravention Application filed on 14 September 2018 was dismissed.