{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-52.12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-52.12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/52.12",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "52.12",
  "heading": "Appellant’s notice",
  "text": "(1) Where the appellant seeks permission from the appeal court, it must be requested in the appellant’s notice.\n(2) Except where rule 62.10A(3) applies, the appellant must file the appellant’s notice at the appeal court within—\n(a) such period as may be directed by the lower court at the hearing at which the decision to be appealed was made or any adjournment of that hearing (which may be longer or shorter than the period referred to in sub-paragraph (b)); or\n(b) where the court makes no such direction, and subject to the specific provision about time limits in rules 52.8 to 52.11 and Practice Direction 52D, 21 days after the date of the decision of the lower court which the appellant wishes to appeal.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4) and unless the appeal court orders otherwise, a sealed copy of the appellant’s notice must be served on each respondent—\n(a) as soon as practicable; and\n(b) in any event where it is served by the appellant not later than 14 days,\nafter it is sealed.\n(4) Where an appellant seeks permission to appeal against a decision to refuse to grant an interim injunction under section 41 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009, the appellant is not required to serve the appellant’s notice on the respondent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 52 substituted (3.10.2016) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2016 (S.I. 2016/788), rule 2, Sch. (with rule 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 52.12(2) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(3), 11(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 52.12(2)(a) inserted (1.10.2021) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/855), rules 1(1), 9(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 52.12(3) substituted (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 9(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 52.12(3)(b) inserted (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 9(2)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in rule 52.12(3)(b) substituted (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 9(2)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in rule 52.12(3) substituted (1.10.2025) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/893), rules 1(2)(b), 9(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/52.12",
    "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."
}