A. Nicholls

The parties were scheduled for a contested motion regarding urgent financial issues in a family law matter.

At the hearing, counsel requested a joint adjournment because the applicant's counsel was unavailable and the respondent's counsel needed to file more materials.

The court expressed frustration over the wasted judicial resources and the failure to indicate unreadiness in the confirmations.

The motions were adjourned without a return date, not to be returnable prior to December 3, 2021.

The applicant brought an urgent motion under section 14B regarding access to the subject child.

The parties subsequently resolved the immediate issue of time share and agreed that the urgent hearing scheduled for May 12, 2020 was no longer necessary.

The remaining issues were make-up time and costs.

The court ordered that these discrete and uncomplicated matters be resolved through affidavit evidence and written submissions rather than oral hearing, in accordance with updated Family Scheduling Memo guidelines and the primary objective of the Family Court Rules to promote active case management.