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Explanatory note

Northern Ireland

(This note is not part of the Rules.)

These Rules prescribe the procedure to be used

(a)

in civil proceedings in a magistrates' court (rule 3);

(b)

on appeal from a magistrates' court to a county court (rule 4),

in which Convention rights within the meaning of section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998, are relied upon.