The Court ordered the self-represented applicant to pay the first respondent's costs fixed at $4,000 following discontinuance of a migration judicial review proceeding, an amount below the applicable scale of $4,553.02. The order was made in Chambers under r 25.14(4) of the Rules, where the applicant filed no submissions in response to the costs application. The Court applied the established principle from El-Debel that a discontinuing party must ordinarily pay costs occasioned by the bringing and abandonment of proceedings.
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