Pickering and Pickering (No 2)

In *Pickering and Pickering (No 2)*, Dawe J of the Family Court of Australia considered applications by the mother concerning alleged contraventions by the father and an application by the mother for an adjournment of the final hearing. The proceedings also involved the father's compliance with previous costs orders.

The court was required to determine whether to grant the mother's application for an adjournment of the final hearing, whether to make further orders in relation to contraventions concerning the children’s issues, and what orders, if any, should be made regarding the father's compliance with outstanding costs orders.

Dawe J refused the mother's adjournment application, noting that the final application was already listed for trial. The court also declined to make further orders regarding the contraventions concerning the children's issues. The father was ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 to the Registry Manager of the Family Court of Australia by 18 April 2014, with this order to be discharged if the father complied with previous costs orders totalling $29,200 by the same date. The mother's contravention applications filed on 28 March 2012 were removed from the active pending list.