Article 5 Notification of appeal and notice to respondent

(1)

Within seven days of receiving a notice of appeal, the registrar shall serve on each person who is then a respondent under rule 4 a notice of the lodging of the appeal in Form 2 of the Appendix, together with copies of the notice of appeal and of the paragraph 7 notice setting out the decision appealed against.

(2)

Any respondent may, within twenty-eight days after the date of service on him of a notice under paragraph (1) of this rule, or within such other period as the registrar or the chancellor may direct, lodge with the registrar a respondent’s notice in Form 3 of the Appendix stating his response to the notice of appeal or any part of it and the grounds of that response.

(3)

A respondent lodging a respondent’s notice shall, at the time of lodging such notice or within fourteen days thereafter, also lodge with the registrar copies of all documents on which he relies other than documents which or copies of which have already been lodged with or are otherwise in the custody of the registrar.

(4)

On receiving a respondent’s notice, the registrar shall–

(a)

serve a copy of the notice on the appellant; and

(b)

serve on the respondent lodging the notice copies of all pleadings other than the notice of appeal which have already been lodged with the registrar.

(5)

Any person who is a respondent to the appeal shall be bound by the decision of the chancellor upon the appeal whether or not he has lodged a respondent’s notice under paragraph (2) of this rule.