Paragraph 2 Interpretation

In the Rules in this Schedule (“these Rules”) —

• “agent” means a solicitor or other person qualified to conduct proceedings before the Judicial Committee;

• “appellant” means a person who files an application for permission to appeal or who files a notice of appeal;

• “business day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971^f1, in England and Wales;

• “certificate of service” means a certificate given under rule 6;

• “counsel” includes any person with the right to be heard as an advocate at a full hearing before the Judicial Committee;

• “court below” means the court from which an appeal (or application for permission to appeal) is made to the Judicial Committee;

• “electronic means” means CD ROMs, memory sticks, email, fax or other means of electronic communication of the contents of documents;

• “filing” means filing in the Registry in accordance with rule 7 and related expressions have corresponding meanings;

• ”financially assisted person” means an appellant in relation to whom a certificate under rule 38 has effect;

• “form” and the “appropriate form” have the meanings given by rule 4;

• “the Judicial Committee” means the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;

• “party” means an appellant, a respondent and an intervener under rule 27;

• “the Registrar” means the Registrar of the Judicial Committee;

• “the Registry” means the Registry of the Judicial Committee;

• “requisite number of copies” means the number of copies which are to be provided under the relevant practice direction or as directed by the Court;

• “respondent” means—

  1. (a)

     a person other than the appellant who was a party to the proceedings in the court below and who is affected by the appeal; and

  2. (b)

     a person who is permitted by the Judicial Committee to be a party to the appeal;

• “service” and related expressions have the meanings given by rule 6.

References in these Rules or in any form to a party’s signing, filing or serving any document or taking any other procedural step include the signature, filing or service of that document or the taking of such other procedural step by the party’s agent.

Where any of these Rules or any practice direction requires a document to be signed, that requirement shall be satisfied if the signature is printed by computer or other mechanical means.