Wipp and Wipp (No. 2)

In *Wipp and Wipp (No. 2)*, Moore J of the Family Court of Australia considered an application for costs filed by the wife on 1 September 2008. The specific nature of the underlying dispute between the parties is not detailed in the provided text, but the application for costs indicates a dispute that had reached a stage where one party was seeking to recover their legal expenses.

The central legal issue before the court was whether the wife's application for costs should be granted. This required the court to assess the circumstances surrounding the litigation and determine if there were grounds to order the husband to pay the wife's costs.

Moore J dismissed the wife's application for costs. No specific reasoning is provided in the excerpt, but the outcome suggests that the court found no sufficient basis to depart from the usual rule that parties bear their own costs in family law proceedings, or that the wife's application failed to meet the necessary legal threshold for an award of costs.