{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-29.8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-29.8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/29.8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "29.8",
  "heading": "Setting a trial timetable and ... confirming the trial date or week",
  "text": "As soon as practicable after—\n(a) each party has filed a completed pre-trial check list;\n(b) the court has held a listing hearing under rule 29.6(3); or\n(c) the court has held a pre-trial review under rule 29.7,\nthe court will—\n(i) set a timetable for the trial unless a timetable has already been fixed, or the court considers that it would be inappropriate to do so;\n(ii) confirm the date for trial or the week within which the trial is to begin; and\n(iii) notify the parties of the trial timetable (where one is fixed under this rule) and the date or trial period.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 29.8(a) substituted (2.12.2002) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2058), rules 1(b), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 29.8(c)(ii) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/262), rules 2, 10(d) (with rule 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 29.8 heading omitted (1.10.2013) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1974), rules 2, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 29.8 in force at 26.4.1999, see Signature"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/29.8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}