Liddell and Liddell

In the matter of *Liddell and Liddell*, the Honourable Justice Cronin considered an application by the wife and a response by the husband. The dispute concerned proceedings that had not progressed towards a judicial determination.

The court was required to determine whether the existing applications and proceedings should be struck out, and under what conditions they might be relisted. This involved assessing the parties' compliance with previous court orders and their readiness to proceed to a hearing.

Justice Cronin reasoned that the parties had failed to comply with prior orders and had not attended a scheduled hearing. Consequently, the court ordered that the wife's application and the husband's response be struck out, and all proceedings be removed from the list of cases awaiting a hearing. The applications could only be relisted upon the filing of a new application supported by an affidavit explaining the non-compliance with previous orders, the absence from the hearing, and demonstrating readiness to proceed to a judicial determination with completed valuations and ready affidavits of evidence in chief.