Weerasinghe and Tamasine

In the matter of *Weerasinghe and Tamasine*, heard before Macmillan J, the dispute concerned an application for contravention filed by the father on 9 March 2017. The specific nature of the contravention alleged is not detailed in the provided text, nor are the precise roles of the parties beyond their designation as "father" and "mother."

The central legal issue before the court was the determination of costs associated with the father's application for contravention. This involved deciding whether the father should bear the mother's costs, and if so, on what basis, and whether the wife's separate application for costs related to the same contravention proceedings should be dismissed.

Macmillan J ordered that the father was to pay the mother’s costs of and incidental to his Application for Contravention filed on 9 March 2017. These costs were to be determined by agreement between the parties, or failing agreement, to be assessed on a party/party basis by a Registrar in accordance with Chapter 19 of the *Family Law Rules 2004* (Cth). The wife's application for costs arising out of or incidental to the father’s contravention application was otherwise dismissed and removed from the list of cases awaiting hearing.