{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-18.12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-18.12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/18.12",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "18.12",
  "heading": "Power of the court to proceed in the absence of a party",
  "text": "(1) Where the applicant or any respondent fails to attend the hearing of an application, the court may proceed in the absence of that person.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the applicant or any respondent fails to attend the hearing of an application; and\n(b) the court makes an order at the hearing,\nthe court may, on application or of its own initiative, re-list the application.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 18.12(3) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 65 (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/18.12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}