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If one of the parties does not attend a hearing, then the consequence of that non-attendance tends to depend on what sort of a case it is.

The court could for example issue a warrant for his arrest, or it could just continue with the case in his absence. Or then again it could just assume that there is a mistake somewhere, i.e., give him the benefit of the doubt and adjourn the proceedings to another date so that he has another opportunity to attend.

If a witness fails to attend then there is nothing that can be done about that unless the witness has been served with a subpoena to attend, in which case a warrant can be issued for the arrest of the witness so that the witness can be brought to court by force if necessary.

Alternatively, most witnesses will have signed statements before the hearing day and sometimes when a witness does not attend in person the statement is admitted in evidence instead. That however is not generally as good as actually having them there. The whole point of having witnesses give their evidence in person is to see them giving the evidence,not just hear it or much less read it. So even if evidence is admitted in writing when a witness does not attend in person the value of the evidence is much reduced.