# The Rules of the Scottish Land Court Order 2014, Paragraph 14: Answers and other responses


(1) A respondent is not required to lodge answers or other responses unless and until ordered to do so by the court.
(2) The date on which answers or other responses are received by the Principal Clerk is to be noted.
(3) Answers and other responses are—
(a) to be framed so as to deal explicitly with all matters of fact set out in the application or other document to which they relate; and
(b) to identify explicitly—
(i) what in the application or other document is admitted and what denied; and
(ii) any legal proposition in the application or other document which is admitted or challenged; and
(c) to give notice of any legal proposition on which the respondent intends to rely.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of this rule, a party may, in an answer or response, ask for an order as respects a matter (either or both)—
(a) forming part of, or arising out of the grounds of, the application;
(b) the decision of which is necessary for the proper determination of the application,
provided that it is an order which might have been asked for in a separate application in which no person other than the respondent would have had an interest to respond.
(5) Where a party asks for an order by virtue of paragraph (4), the court may order that the matter should be dealt with by way of a separate application.
(6) Where a respondent asks for an order in terms of paragraph (4), the court may deal with that request even if, for any reason, the application does not proceed.
(7) Where a party asks for an order by virtue of paragraph (4), the party is to set out in the answer or response such matters of fact and law as may be necessary to support the request.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/229/schedule/paragraph/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-scottish-land-court-order-2014/schedule/paragraph-14
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