11.01General powers

#### 11.01 General powers The court may exercise any of the powers mentioned in Table 11.1 to manage a case to achieve the main purpose of these Rules (see rule 1.04). Table 11.1 Court’s powers | Item | Subject | Power | | ---- | ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1 | Attendance | (a) order a party to attend:(ii) a procedural hearing;(iii) a family consultant;(iv) family counselling or family dispute resolution;(v) a conference or other court event; or(vi) a post‑separation parenting program;(b) require a party, a party’s lawyer or an independent children’s lawyer to attend court | | 2 | Case development | (a) consolidate cases;(b) order that part of a case be dealt with separately;(c) decide the sequence in which issues are to be tried;(d) specify the facts that are in dispute, state the issues and make procedural orders about how and when the case will be heard or tried;(e) finalise the balance sheet setting out all assets, liabilities and financial resources that either party asserts are relevant to the determination of the case;(f) with the consent of the parties, order that a case or part of a case be submitted to arbitration;(g) order a party to provide particulars, or further and better particulars, of the orders sought by that party and the basis on which the orders are sought;(h) order a party to produce any relevant document in a financial case to the court or to any other party for the purpose of developing and finalising the balance sheet | | 3 | Conduct of case | (a) hold a court event and receive submissions and evidence by electronic communication;(b) postpone, bring forward or cancel a court event;(c) adjourn a court event;(d) stay a case or part of a case;(e) make orders in the absence of a party;(f) deal with an application without an oral hearing;(g) deal with an application with written or oral evidence or, if the issue is a question of law, without evidence;(h) allow an application to be made orally;(i) determine an application without requiring notice to be given;(j) order that a case lose listing priority;(k) make a self‑executing order;(l) make an order granting permission for a party to perform an action if a provision of the Rules requires a party to obtain that permission;(m) for a fee that is required by law to be paid—order that the fee must be paid by a specified date | Note 1: The powers mentioned in this rule are in addition to any powers given to the court under a legislative provision or that it may otherwise have. Note 2: Rule 1.10 provides that a court may make an order on its own initiative and sets out what other things the court may do when making an order or giving a party permission to do something.