New Material
Amendments to Rules
Amendments to Practice Directions

Amendments and new material comes in to force on 2 October 2000

New material:

Part 54 | Judicial Review Rules
Part 54 Practice Direction | Judicial Review
CCR Order 49, rule 6A | new paragraph (17A),(17B) and (17C) and new Practice Direction
Pre- Action Protocol for Construction and Engineering Disputes
Pre-Action Protocol for Defamation

Amendments to existing Rules:

2.3(1) | amended
3.7 | amended
6.5 | amended
7.11 | inserted
13.4 | amended
19.4A | inserted
24.3(2) | amended
26.11 | inserted
27.12 and 27.13 | revoked
27.14(2)(c) | amended
30.3(2) | amended
30.8 | revoked
33.9 | inserted
36.6(5) | amended
36.21(6) | amended
39.3(4) | amended
47.17(3) | amended
52.1(2) | amended
RSC Order 53 | revoked
RSC Order 57 | revoked
RSC Order 64 | rule 4(b) revoked
RSC Order 98 | rule 2(3) amended
CCR Order 49 | rule 6 revoked
CCR Order 49 | rule 6A(17A-C) inserted

Amendments to existing Practice Directions:

Part 2B | paras 3.1(c) amended, paras 7A and 15 inserted
Part 7 | para 2.10 inserted
Part 8B | para 2.1 amended, insertion after Table 2
Part 16 | paras 2.1, 2.2, 11.4 and 11.5 inserted
Part 19 | paras 6.1 to 6.6 inserted plus attachment
Part 19B | paras 3.3 and 3.4 amended
Part 25B | paras 2A.1 and 2A.2 inserted
Part 26 | para 10.2(11) amended
Part 27 | paras 8.1 to 8.10 deleted, new paras 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 inserted
Part 28 | para 1.2 amended
Part 29 | para 1.2 amended
Part 30 | para 7 inserted
Part 39 | para 8.1 inserted
Part 40 | para 14.4 inserted
Part 42 | para 2.6(3) amended
Part 44 | para 13.10 amended
Part 52 | paras 5.1A, 5.1B, 5.8A, 5.8B, 7.3A and 8.10 inserted, para 5.5, 5.6 and 8.9 amended
RSC Order 52 and CCR Order 29 | Committal Applications PD replaced
RSC Order 53 | delete PD
RSC Order 54 | para 6.1 amended
Welsh Devolution | title to PD amended, Part III introductory para amended, para 2.2 deleted, para 10.3(4)(c) amended, paras 14.1 to 14.4 deleted, para 14.1 inserted
Insolvency Proceedings PD | para 17.22(2)(d) amended, para 17.25 inserted,
Directors Disqualification PD | Annex 1 Cardiff amended
Pre-Action Protocol | para 4A.1 heading inserted, para 5.1 to 5.4 replaced
Costs Practice Direction | correction of cross references

Transitional Provisions:

Where a person has, before 2 nd October 2000, filed a notice of appeal in a claim allocated to the small claims track-(

(a) Part 52 shall not apply to the appeal to which that notice relates; and
(b) rules 27.12 and 27.13 shall apply to that appeal as if they had not been revoked.

Where a person has, before 2 nd October 2000, filed an application for permission to make an application for judicial review in accordance with RSC Order 53-

(a) Part 54 shall not apply to that application for permission or the application for judicial review to which it relates; and
(b) RSC Order 53 shall apply to those applications as if it had not been revoked.

Amendments and new material comes in to force on 2 October 2000

Zip Format

The following (including the amendments) are available in Zip format:

The complete set |  | HTML |  | Word 6
Lord Chancellor's foreword |  | HTML |  | Word 6
Civil Procedure Rules and Glossary |  | HTML |  | Word 6
Practice Directions |  | HTML |  | Word 6
Schedules |  | HTML |  | Word 6
Protocols |  | HTML |  | Word 6

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