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In the recent past, there has been ongoing controversy and
debate about the fees being charged by family lawyers.
One
newspaper report has suggested that the government is likely to
ban reservation fees (referred to in the article as cancellation fees or disappointment fees )
that are charged by some barristers – as part of reforms to
the family law system next year.
In a 2017 judgment in
Simic & Norton [2017] FamCA 1007, Family Court judge
Robert Benjamin was scathing in his criticism of fees charged by
solicitors for each party and referred both of them to the Office