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  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure) 2016",
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  "heading": "The Simple Procedure Rules",
  "text": "Part 1 An overview of simple procedure\n1.1\nThe simple procedure is a court process designed to provide a speedy, inexpensive and informal court way to resolve disputes.\n1.2\nWhat are the principles of simple procedure?\n1.3\nWho takes part in a simple procedure case?\n1.4\nWhat are the sheriff's responsibilities?\n1.5\nWhat are parties' responsibilities?\n1.6\nWhat are representatives' responsibilities?\n1.7\nWhat are the sheriff clerk's responsibilities?\n1.8\nWhat are the sheriff's powers?\nPart 2 Representation and support\n2.1\nThis Part is about who may represent a party, and what that representative may and may not do.\nThis Part is also about who may provide support to a party in the courtroom, and what that courtroom supporter may and may not do.\nRepresentation\n2.2\nWho can be a representative?\n2.3\nWhat can a representative do?\n2.4\nWho is entitled by these Rules to be a lay representative?\nSupport\n2.5\nWho can be a courtroom supporter?\n2.6\nWhat can a courtroom supporter do?\nPart 3 How to make a claim\n3.1\nThis Part is about how the claimant makes a claim and what the court will do with that claim.\n3.2\nHow is a claim made?\n3.3\nHow do you complete a Claim Form?\n3.4\nWhat if there is more than one claimant?\n3.5\nWhat if there are more than two respondents?\n3.6\nWhat if the respondent uses a trading name?\n3.7\nWhat do you do with a completed Claim Form?\n3.8\nHow do you ask for provisional orders to be made?\n3.9\nWhat will the court do with the Claim Form?\n3.10\nWhat happens next?\n3.11\nWhat is the last date for service?\n3.12\nWhat is the last date for a response?\n3.13\nHow can the timetable be changed?\nPart 4 How to respond to a claim\n4.1\nThis Part is about how the respondent responds to a claim and what the court will do with that response.\n4.2\nHow do you respond to a claim?\n4.3\nWhat responses can you make?\n4.4\nWhat has to go in the Response Form?\n4.5\nWhat will the court do with the Response Form?\nPart 5 How to ask for time to pay\n5.1\nThis Part is about how the respondent may ask for time to pay if a claim for payment of a sum of money is admitted, and how the claimant can consent or object to that.\n5.2\nWhat is an order for time to pay?\n5.3\nHow can a respondent ask for time to pay?\n5.4\nWhat will the court do with a Time to Pay Application?\n5.5\nHow can the claimant consent to a Time to Pay Application?\n5.6\nHow can the claimant object to a Time to Pay Application?\n5.7\nWhat if the claimant does not consent or object to a Time to Pay Application?\nPart 6 Sending and formal service\n6.1\nThis Part is about what has to be done when these Rules require something to be sent to someone.\nThis Part is also about what has to be done when these Rules require a document to be formally served on someone.\n6.2\nWhat is the difference between sending and formally serving?\n6.3\nWhen must something be sent or formally served?\n6.4\nCan a party object to how sending or formal service was done?\nSending\n6.5\nHow can the court send something to a party?\n6.6\nHow can a party send something to the court?\n6.7\nHow can a party send something to another party?\nFormal service\n6.8\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone living within Scotland?\n6.9\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone living outside Scotland?\n6.10\nWhat if a person uses a trading name?\n6.11\nHow can the Claim Form be formally served on the respondent?\n6.12\nWhat if the claimant does not know the respondent's address?\n6.13\nWhat if the sheriff considers that formal service of the Claim Form has not been done properly?\nPart 7 What happens to a case\n7.1\nThis Part is about what happens after a Response Form has been received and what happens if no Response Form is received.\nAdmitted claims\n7.2\nWhat if parties settle the claim before the last date for a response?\n7.3\nWhat if the respondent makes a Time to Pay Application?\n7.4\nWhat if no Response Form is received by the court?\nDisputed claims\n7.5\nWhat if the respondent disputes the claim?\n7.6\nWhat will be in the first written orders?\n7.7\nWhat is a case management discussion?\n7.8\nWhat is a hearing?\nPart 8 Orders\n8.1\nThis Part is about the orders which the sheriff can give to manage or decide a case.\n8.2\nWhat are orders?\n8.3\nWhat are standard orders?\n8.4\nWhat are unless orders?\n8.5\nWhat if a party does not follow an order?\nPart 9 Applications\n9.1\nThis Part is about applications which parties may make to the court to ask for things to be done in a case.\nPausing and restarting cases\n9.2\nHow can a party ask for the progress of a case to be paused?\n9.3\nWhat happens if the progress of a case is paused?\n9.4\nHow can a party ask for a paused case to be restarted?\n9.5\nWhat can the court do with a paused case?\nMiscellaneous applications\n9.6\nHow can a person become an additional respondent in a case?\n9.7\nHow can a party ask to amend the Claim Form or the Response Form?\n9.8\nHow can a claimant abandon a claim?\n9.9\nWhat can happen if a party dies or becomes legally incapacitated?\n9.10\nHow can a party ask the sheriff to make any other orders?\nPart 10 Documents and other evidence\n10.1\nThis Part is about how parties should lodge documents and other evidence with the court before a hearing.\nThis Part is also about how parties can apply for orders to recover documents from other people.\nLodging documents and other evidence\n10.2\nHow can you lodge documents and other evidence with the court?\n10.3\nWhat documents and other evidence can a party bring to a hearing?\n10.4\nHow can other parties borrow or inspect documents and other evidence lodged with the court?\n10.5\nHow long will the court keep documents and other evidence for?\nOrders to recover documents\n10.6\nHow can a party recover documents to lodge them with the court?\n10.7\nWhat happens when an order to recover documents is made?\n10.8\nWhat happens if the person who has the documents claims they are confidential?\n10.9\nWhat happens if a party does not believe that an order to recover documents has been complied with?\n10.10\nWhat happens when a special order to recover documents is made?\n10.11\nWhat happens if the person who has the documents claims they are confidential?\nPart 11 Witnesses\n11.1\nThis Part is about the citation of witnesses and their attendance at hearings.\nThis Part is also about measures that the court can take to assist vulnerable witnesses in giving evidence.\nThe citation of witnesses\n11.2\nHow can a party arrange the attendance of witnesses at a hearing?\n11.3\nWhat if a witness does not appear at a hearing?\nVulnerable witnesses\n11.4\nHow will the court treat a child witness?\n11.5\nHow will the court treat other vulnerable witnesses?\n11.6\nWhat are special measures?\n11.7\nHow can a party ask the court to review the arrangements for a child witness or a vulnerable witness?\n11.8\nWhat happens when evidence is to be given before an independent person?\nPart 12 The hearing\n12.1\nThis Part is about the hearing at which the dispute between the parties should be resolved.\n12.2\nWhat is the purpose of the hearing?\n12.3\nHow will the dispute between the parties be resolved?\n12.4\nWhat will the sheriff do at the hearing?\n12.5\nWhat if a party does not come to the hearing?\n12.6\nHow will evidence be given at the hearing?\nPart 13 The decision\n13.1\nThis Part is about the decisions which the sheriff can make to resolve a dispute.\nThis Part is also about the circumstances in which a party can apply to have a decision recalled.\n13.2\nWhen must the sheriff make the decision?\n13.3\nHow will the sheriff make the decision?\n13.4\nWhat sort of decisions can the sheriff make?\nRecalling a decision\n13.5\nWhen can a decision of the sheriff be recalled?\n13.6\nHow can a party apply to have a decision of the sheriff recalled?\n13.7\nWhat happens when a sheriff decides to recall a decision?\nPart 14 Expenses\n14.1\nThis Part is about the expenses of a claim which the sheriff can order a party to pay for.\n14.2\nWhat orders about expenses can the sheriff make?\n14.3\nWhen will the sheriff make an order about expenses?\n14.4\nWhat if the sheriff does not make an order about expenses when deciding the claim?\n14.5\nWhat is an expenses hearing?\nPart 15 How to enforce a decision\n15.1\nThis Part is about the steps which a successful party must take to enforce a decision.\n15.2\nWhen can a party enforce a decision?\n15.3\nHow can a party enforce a decision?\n15.4\nWhat if the claimant does not know the respondent's address?\n15.5\nWhat if the respondent does not comply with a decision?\nPart 16 How to appeal a decision\n16.1\nThis Part is about how a party can appeal a decision and how the sheriff and Sheriff Appeal Court will deal with an appeal.\n16.2\nHow do you appeal a decision?\n16.3\nWhat will the sheriff do with an appeal?\n16.4\nWhat will the Sheriff Appeal Court do with an appeal?\nPart 17 Miscellaneous matters\n17.1\nThis Part is about some miscellaneous matters which can arise during a case.\n17.2\nHow can a case be transferred out of the simple procedure?\n17.3\nHow can the sheriff make a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union?\n17.4\nHow can the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (“CEHR”) or the Scottish Commission for Human Rights (“SCHR”) intervene?\n17.5\nWhat can the CEHR or the SCHR do in an intervention?\nManagement of damages\n17.6\nWhen is a damages management order available?\n17.7\nWhen must the sheriff make a damages management order?\n17.8\nWhat can the sheriff do in a damages management order?\n17.9\nHow can the damages management order be changed?\n17.10\nHow can further instructions about managing the money be given?\n17.11\nWhen can someone apply for a child's property administration order?\n17.12\nHow can someone apply for a child's property administration order?\nThe Equality Act 2010\n17.13\nWhat is an Equality Act 2010 claim?\n17.14\nHow can the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (“the CEHR”) be notified of an Equality Act 2010 claim?\n17.15\nHow can an Equality Act 2010 claim be transferred to the Employment Tribunal?\n17.16\nHow can an Employment Tribunal case be transferred to simple procedure?\n17.17\nWhat if a question of national security arises in an Equality Act 2010 claim?\nPart 18 Formal service in Scotland\n18.1\nThis Part is about how to formally serve a document on someone living in Scotland.\n18.2\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone who lives in Scotland?\n18.3\nWhat if service by post does not work?\nPart 19 Formal service outside Scotland\n19.1\nThis Part is about how to formally serve a document on someone outside Scotland.\n19.2\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone who lives outside Scotland?\n19.3\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone who lives in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands?\n19.4\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone who lives in an EU member state (including Denmark) under the Service Regulation?\n19.5\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone who lives in a Hague Convention country (other than an EU member state)?\n19.6\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone who lives in a country with which the United Kingdom has a convention about how to serve court documents?\n19.7\nHow can you formally serve a document on someone who lives in any other country?\nPart 20 Provisional orders\n20.1\nThis Part is about provisional orders which protect or secure the claimant's position before the sheriff makes a final decision in a case.\n20.2\nWhen can a claimant ask for provisional orders to be made?\n20.3\nWhat happens when the court receives a Provisional Orders Application?\n20.4\nHow can the claimant tell the respondent or an interested party about a hearing?\n20.5\nHow can you ask the court to reconsider provisional orders that it has made?\n20.6\nHow can you ask the court to consider other applications about provisional orders?\n20.7\nHow are provisional orders made effective?\n20.8\nHow is an arrestment on the dependence made effective?\n20.9\nHow is an inhibition on the dependence made effective if the claimant does not know the respondent's address?\nPart 21 Glossary\n21.1\nThis Part contains a guide for litigants, lay representatives and courtroom supporters to the meaning of certain legal words and expressions used in these rules.",
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      "text": "Sch. 1 modified (temp.) (1.12.2020) by Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Civil Online) 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/293), paras. 1(2), 2(3) (with para. 1(3))"
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