Section 223 — Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Act 2021: Costs

The Rules of Court may make provision for or in relation to: (a) the giving of security; and (b) the costs of proceedings in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2); and (c) the fees to be charged by practitioners practising in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) for the work done by them in relation to proceedings in the Court and the taxation of their bills of costs, either as between party and party or as between solicitor and client; and (d) the kinds of proceedings or circumstances in which each party is required to bear the party’s own costs.