Ongal and Materns (No. 2)

In *Ongal and Materns (No. 2)*, the Federal Court of Australia considered an application for costs following earlier proceedings between the parties. The specific nature of the dispute that led to the earlier proceedings is not detailed in this excerpt, but the present application concerned the allocation of legal expenses.

The central legal issue before the Court was whether any order for costs should be made in favour of either party. This required the Court to consider the general principles governing the award of costs in federal litigation and whether any specific circumstances warranted a departure from the usual rule that costs follow the event.

The Court ultimately made no order for costs. This indicates that neither party was successful in persuading the Court to award them their legal expenses. The absence of a costs order suggests that the Court may have found no compelling reason to depart from the default position, or that there were mutual reasons for not awarding costs.