Re JJT; Ex Parte Victoria Legal Aid

[1998] HCA 44
Judgment date
Case number
M74/1997
Before
Gaudron, Gummow, Kirby, Hayne, Callinan JJ
Catchwords

Costs – Power to make order against a non-party – Order of Family Court requiring Victoria Legal Aid to provide for future costs of child's separate representation – Whether order "as to costs" – Whether order as to security for costs.

Family law – Order of Family Court requiring Victoria Legal Aid to provide for future costs of child's separate representation – Whether supported by power to make such other orders as the court considers necessary to secure separate representation – Power to make interim maintenance orders.

Words and phrases – "order as to costs".

Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), ss 68L, 117.