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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/19",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981 (S.R. 1981 No. 225) to –\nprovide a new Appendix 2 which includes 3 additional new bands in Table 1 from £15,000 - £30,000; an amendment to the fee for additional day hearings; a new fee for drafting interrogatories and answers to interrogatories in cases of particular complexity; a reduction in fee bands from 8 to 4 and 3 additional new bands from £15,000 - £30,000 where no notice of intention to defend is served; and otherwise increase costs over a two year period (2% in 2013 with a further 2% increase to take effect in 2014);\nallow the plaintiff to require the defendant to serve particulars of defence;\nrequire the plaintiff to notify the defendant in writing of his intention to lodge the certificate of readiness no later than 14 days prior to lodging the certificate;\nallow interlocutory applications to be determined by a judge without a hearing in the absence of a specific provision to the contrary;\nallow district judges’ to deal with interlocutory applications which fall within their jurisdiction;\nprovide that discovery is automatic;\nallow interrogatories to be served without leave;\nprovide rules on evidence in clinical negligence cases; and\nallow a district judge to exercise the same powers as a county court judge in specific circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/19/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:16.445515+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."
}