How much has the fight for Jayden cost?

The Family Court has now published (before the High Court ordered them to stop doing so) a chronology of events in the Jayden Headley case.

There are 95 judicial events listed! 28 of them involved a full judicial conference.

That cost alone must be many hundreds of thousands of dollars. I assume both sides were on legal aid, plus all the costs of the Judge and Court.

Then add onto that the costs of the counsellors, psychiatrists etc who have done multiple assessments. And you also have the agencies such as Barnardos who supervised the scheduled hand-overs and were presumably paid to do so.

And finally you have the cost of the Police in relation to the kidnapping.

I would not be surprised if this one dispute has not cost the taxpayer over one million dollars. I bet that you and me have paid for everyone of Kay Skelton’s 22+ lawyers.

UPDATE: According to commenters the father (poor bastard) was not on legal aid and had to pay his own way.