MEREDITH & MEREDITH

In *Meredith & Meredith*, the applicant wife and respondent husband brought applications concerning costs orders. The wife sought costs in her application filed on 3 September 2012, while the husband sought costs in his response filed on 11 December 2012. The court was also asked to consider a permanent restraint on the husband enforcing certain costs orders.

The primary legal issues before Watts J were whether to grant the wife's application for costs, whether to grant the husband's application for costs, and whether to permanently restrain the husband from enforcing specific costs orders referenced in his affidavit.

Watts J dismissed both the wife's and the husband's applications for costs. Furthermore, the court ordered that the husband be permanently restrained from enforcing any costs order as referred to in paragraph 9 of his affidavit filed on 11 December 2012.