{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-59.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-59.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/59.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "59.1",
  "heading": "Scope of this Part and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies to claims in Circuit Commercial Courts.\n(2) A claim may only be started in a Circuit Commercial Court if it—\n(a) relates to a commercial or business matter in a broad sense; and\n(b) is not required to proceed in another specialist list of the Business and Property Division.\n(3) In this Part and Practice Direction 59—\n(a) “Circuit Commercial Court” means a specialist list established within the courts listed in Practice Direction 59;\n(b) “Circuit Commercial claim” means a claim proceeding in a Circuit Commercial Court; and\n(c) “Circuit Commercial judge” means a judge authorised to sit in a Circuit Commercial Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 59 inserted (25.3.2002) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/4015), rule 1(c), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 59.1(1) substituted (1.10.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/889), rules 1(1), 7(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 59 substituted (1.10.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/889), rules 1(1), 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 59.1(2)(b) substituted (1.10.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/889), rules 1(1), 7(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in rule 59.1(2)(b) substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(4), 16 (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 59.1(3) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3390), rules 1(2), 34(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Rule 59(3)(a) substituted (2.10.2006) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2006 (S.I. 2006/1689), rules 1, 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 59.1(3)(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3390), rules 1(2), 34(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 59 substituted (1.10.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/889), rules 1(1), 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Pt. 59 substituted (1.10.2017) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/889), rules 1(1), 7(2)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/59.1",
    "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."
}