{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-38.8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-38.8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/38.8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "38.8",
  "heading": "Stay of remainder of partly discontinued proceedings where costs not paid",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where—\n(a) proceedings are partly discontinued;\n(b) a claimant is liable to—\n(i) pay costs under rule 38.6; or\n(ii) make a payment pursuant to an order under section 194(3) of the Legal Services Act 2007; and\n(c) the claimant fails to pay those costs or make the payment within 14 days of—\n(i) the date on which the parties agreed the sum payable by the claimant; or\n(ii) the date on which the court ordered the costs to be paid or the payment to be made.\n(2) Where this rule applies, the court may stay(GL) the remainder of the proceedings until the claimant pays the whole of the costs which the claimant is liable to pay under rule 38.6 or makes the payment pursuant to an order under section 194(3) of the Legal Services Act 2007\n(Rules 44.9 and 46.7 contain provisions about applying for an order under section 194(3) of the Legal Services Act 2007.)",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 38.8(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rules 1(2), 19(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.8(1)(c) inserted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rules 1(2), 19(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in rule 38.8(1)(c) substituted (3.7.2000) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/1317), rules 1, 10 (with rule 39)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.8(1)(c)(ii) inserted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rules 1(2), 19(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.8(2) substituted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rules 1(2), 19(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.8(2) inserted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rules 1(2), 19(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.8 inserted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rules 1(2), 19(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 38.8 substituted (1.10.2013) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1974), rules 2, 15(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 38.8 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/38.8",
    "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."
}