Victorian Current Acts

CIVIL PROCEDURE ACT 2010 - SECT 23

If a person to whom the overarching obligations apply cannot resolve a dispute wholly by agreement, the person must use reasonable endeavours to—

        (a)     resolve by agreement any issues in dispute which can be resolved in that way; and

        (b)     narrow the scope of the remaining issues in dispute—

unless—

        (c)     it is not in the interests of justice to do so; or

        (d)     the dispute is of such a nature that only judicial determination is appropriate.