SATHRA & SATHRA

This matter came before Le Poer Trench J on a husband's application for review of orders made by Judicial Registrar Loughnan on 23 December 2008. The dispute concerned family law proceedings involving the parties' children.

The primary legal issue before the court was whether to grant the husband's application for review and, consequently, discharge the previous orders. The court was also required to determine the appropriate interim orders regarding the children's welfare and the parties' costs.

Le Poer Trench J granted the husband's application for review and discharged the orders made by the Judicial Registrar. The court then made new interim orders, including a requirement for the wife to file and serve any Amended Application for Final Orders by a specified date, and for the wife's Response to an Application in a Case to be heard by telephone. The husband's earlier Application in a Case was withdrawn and dismissed. Crucially, pending a further hearing, the father and mother, and their agents, were restrained from removing the children from Australia, with the Australian Federal Police authorised and requested to give effect to these orders and place the children's names on the Airport Watch List.

In relation to the review application, each party was ordered to bear their own costs, and the husband's costs application was otherwise dismissed.