OpenLegislation

Explanatory note

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court so as to–

(a)

permit contentious probate proceedings to be commenced and dealt with in a Chancery district registry instead of in Chancery Chambers in London (rules 2 to 6);

(b)

provide for the compulsory exchange of witness statements (rules 7 to 10);

(c)

allow further affidavits to be used in judicial review proceedings regardless of whether they deal with new matters arising out of affidavits of another party (rule 11), and

(d)

make consequential amendments as a result of the coming into force of the Lugano Convention to which the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1991 (c. 12) gave effect (rules 12 to 22).