Little and Little and Ors (No. 2)

In *Little and Little and Ors (No. 2)*, Johns J of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia considered an application by the wife to strike out the husband's Response to Initiating Application. The dispute concerned family law proceedings, and the wife sought to have the husband's response removed from the court's record.

The primary legal issue before the court was whether the husband's Response to Initiating Application, filed on 9 June 2017, should be struck out. This involved determining if the document was deficient in a manner that warranted its removal from the proceedings, thereby allowing the matter to proceed without the husband's active participation in defence.

Johns J determined that the husband's Response was indeed deficient and ordered that it be struck out. The court's reasoning, though not detailed in the provided text, led to the conclusion that the husband's filing was insufficient to properly contest the wife's application. Consequently, the court ordered that the matter proceed on an undefended basis.