Article 2 Interpretation

(1)

In this Order–

“Office of Court” has the same meaning as in rule 3.1 of the Rules of Court,
“partner” means a person to whom a person is married, or with whom the person is in a civil partnership,
“Rules of Court” means the Rules of the Court of Session 1994^f1.

(2)

For the purposes of any reference in this Order to a “party”—

(a)

except in relation to a special case, a set of persons with the same interest, for whom one and the same first paper is or has been lodged, is to be treated as a single party, and

(b)

in relation to a special case, each person or set of persons who appear as one of the separate parties to the case is to be treated as a party.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The Rules of the Court of Session 1994 are in schedule 2 of the Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994) 1994 (S.I. 1994/1443, as last relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2025/80, which itself was amended by S.S.I. 2025/171).