Lorde and Chu (No. 2)

In *Lorde and Chu (No. 2)*, Gill J of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia considered applications made by both the wife and the husband concerning their financial settlement. The wife filed an application on 30 May 2017, while the husband had filed an application on 29 August 2016 and an amended initiating application on 17 August 2016.

The central legal issue before the court was whether to grant the applications made by the parties. Implicitly, the court was required to determine if the grounds upon which these applications were made were sufficiently established to warrant the relief sought.

Gill J dismissed all applications filed by both the wife and the husband. The court's reasoning for this outcome is not detailed in the provided text, but the effect of the decision was to refuse the relief sought by each party in their respective applications. Consequently, the court made orders dismissing the wife's application and both the husband's application and his amended initiating application.