Rule 2.30 Issue of witness summons or subpoena

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

rules 10.24-10.25 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 6
rules 2.71-2.77 revoked by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 19
rules 3.1-3.20 (Pt.III) am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force) by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 20
rules 3.21-3.23 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 4
rules 2.71-2.77 added by Family Proceedings 1997 rule 4
rule 2.45A-2.45B inserted by Family Proceedings 2003 rule 3
rule 2.30(1) substituted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 26(a)
rule 2.30(2) words inserted by Family Proceedings 2005 rule 26(b)

(1)

A witness summons in a cause pending in a divorce county court may be issued in that court or in the court of trial at which the cause is to be tried.

(2)

A writ of subpoena in a cause pending in the High Court may issue out of—

(a)

the registry in which the cause is proceeding, or

(b)

if the cause is to be tried at the Royal Courts of Justice, the principal registry; or

(c)

if the cause is to be tried at a divorce town, the registry for that town.