Werner & Werner (No. 2)

In the matter of Schappeler, SYC 7563 of 2019, Ms Werner (the applicant wife) and Mr Werner (the respondent husband) appeared before Rees J of the Family Court of Australia. The dispute concerned the wife's costs of a review of a registrar's decision that had been determined on 16 March 2021.

The primary legal issue before the court was whether the husband should be ordered to pay the wife's costs associated with the review of the registrar's decision.

Rees J ordered that the husband pay the wife's costs of the review in the sum of $2,039.70. This order was to be satisfied within 14 days of the date of the order, 24 March 2021.