When your dispute is about your financial issues (assets and debts)
The events you are most likely to attend for financial cases are:
Registrar managed events
A registrar is a court lawyer. Registrar managed events are aimed at preparing your case for trial if a judicial decision is necessary and giving you and your former partner the opportunity to reach agreement without the need for a judicial decision.
The steps/events involved in financial cases before a registrar includes:
- Case assessment conference
- Conciliation conference (if appropriate)
- Procedural hearing
Judge managed events
Judge managed events are called trials. Trials about financial issues will go through the events below unless both parties and the judge agree that the trial will be heard as a less adversarial trial. See the section ‘less adversarial trials’ for more information if this relates to your case.
Duty of disclosure
You have a duty to disclose to the Court and each other party all information relevant to an issue in the case. This includes information and documents that the other parties may not know about. This duty starts with the pre-action procedure before the case starts and continues until the case is finalised. You can read more about duty of disclosure in financial cases by going to the heading 'Duty of Disclosure' in this section.