Rhazi and Rhazi (Costs)

In the matter of *Rhazi and Rhazi (Costs)*, the applicant wife sought costs from the respondent husband following proceedings before the District Court of New South Wales. The specific dispute concerned the quantum of costs to be paid by the husband to the wife.

The primary legal issue before the Court was to determine the appropriate amount of costs to be awarded to the applicant wife and to finalise all proceedings before the Court.

His Honour Faulks DCJ ordered that the respondent husband pay the applicant wife's costs of and incidental to the proceedings before the Court, including the proceedings heard on that day, in the sum of $16,000. This was an order as to costs, not an order for costs, and signified the finalisation of all proceedings before the Court. The husband was ordered to pay this sum within 60 days of the date of the order.