{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/paragraph-33A.36A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/paragraph-33A.36A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/33A.36A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "33A.36A",
  "heading": "Fixing of date and time for Initial Case Management Hearing",
  "text": "(1) On the lodging of a notice of intention to defend under rule 33A.34 (notice of intention to defend and defences etc.) the sheriff clerk must fix a date and time for an Initial Case Management Hearing which date must be on the first suitable court day occurring not sooner than 21 days and not later than 49 days after the last date for the lodging of the notice of intention to defend.\n(2) In cases involving a crave for a section 11 order the sheriff must have regard to holding the Initial Case Management Hearing and the Child Welfare Hearing at the same time.\n(3) On fixing the date for the Initial Case Management Hearing, the sheriff clerk must—\n(a) intimate forthwith to the parties in Form G5A—\n(i) the last date for lodging defences;\n(ii) the date for the return of the initial writ;\n(iii) the date of the Initial Case Management Hearing;\n(iv) whether a Child Welfare Hearing is to be held at the same time as the Initial Case Management Hearing;\n(b) prepare an interlocutor addressing all of the matters in sub-paragraph (a) for the sheriff to sign.\n(4) The fixing of the date of the Initial Case Management Hearing does not affect the right of a party to make any incidental application to the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rules 33A.36A-33A.36Q inserted (25.9.2023) by Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Case Management of Defended Family and Civil Partnership Actions) 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/289), paras. 1(2), 2(24) (with para. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2014/18",
      "affecting_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/51/schedule/1/paragraph/33A.36A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:13.908359+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}