Dv case hearing stages

I had lodged a Dv case myself with ge help of a protection officer. My husband's lawyer was taking dates saying he will do a counterfile for the case. Since it was prolonging without any reason, I got a lawyer assigned from legal aid. Now my lawyer is saying that the opposite party do not want to file counter. Hence I need to proceed to produce evidences for all my allegations. Does it mean the opposition has agreed on all my allegations since they did not counterfile? Can we appeal to the judge on this before producing the evidences? Is there any way to make my husband come to court? He hasn't appeared even once. Only his lawyer represents him.