FAMILY JUSTICE ACT 2014

(ACT 27 OF 2014)

FAMILY JUSTICE RULES 2014

Striking out pleadings and endorsements

405.—(1) The Court may at any stage of the proceedings order to be struck out or
amended any pleading or the endorsement of any writ in the action, or anything in any
pleading or in the endorsement, on the ground that —
(a) it discloses no reasonable cause of action or defence, as the case may be;
(b) it is scandalous, frivolous or vexatious;
(c) it may prejudice, embarrass or delay the fair trial of the action; or
(d) it is otherwise an abuse of the process of the Court.
(2) In addition to an order made under paragraph (1), the Court may order the action
to be stayed or dismissed or judgment to be entered accordingly, as the case may be.
(3) No evidence shall be admissible on an application under paragraph (1)(a).
(4) This rule shall, as far as applicable, apply to an originating summons as if it were
a pleading.

Application
851.—(1) Where by virtue of any written law the costs of or incidental to any
proceedings before an arbitrator or umpire or before a tribunal or other body constituted
under any written law, not being proceedings in the Family Division of the High Court,
are taxable in the Family Division of the High Court, this Division shall have effect in
relation to proceedings for taxation of those costs as it has effect in relation to
proceedings for taxation of the costs of or arising out of proceedings in that Court.
(2) Subject to the express provisions of any written law and of these Rules, the costs
of and incidental to proceedings in the Family Justice Courts, including the
administration of estates and trusts, shall be in the discretion of the Court, and the Court
has full power to determine by whom and to what extent the costs are to be paid.

Costs due to unnecessary claims or issues

856. In addition to and not in derogation of any other provision in this Division,
where a party has failed to establish any claim or issue which he has raised in any
proceedings, and has thereby unnecessarily or unreasonably protracted, or added to the

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costs or complexity of, those proceedings, the Court may order —
(a) that the costs of that party shall not be allowed in whole or in part; or
(b) that any costs occasioned by that claim or issue to any other party shall be
paid by him to that other party, regardless of the outcome of the cause or
matter.

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