COST BITES 445: “AN APPALLING WASTE OF RESOURCES FOR WHICH BOTH PARTIES AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES BEAR RESPONSIBILITY”: THE FAMILY COURT IS NOT BEST PLEASED…

Here we take a look at a judgment in a family case which contains an exhortation about running up unnecessary costs.  This is normally a regime in which inter partes costs are not awarded.  The conduct in this case led to an award of costs, but for less than half the sum sought. "I described the tot...