{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/paragraph-33A.36F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/paragraph-33A.36F.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.36F",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "33A.36F",
  "heading": "Defences",
  "text": "(1) Where a notice of intention to defend has been lodged, the defender must lodge defences within 14 days after the expiry of the period of notice.\n(2) Defences must be in the form of answers in numbered paragraphs corresponding to the articles of the condescendence and must have appended a note of the pleas-in-law of the defender.\n(3) Defences which include a counterclaim must commence with a crave setting out the counterclaim in such form as, if the counterclaim had been made in a separate action, would have been appropriate in the initial writ in that separate action and must include—\n(a) answers to the condescendence of the initial writ;\n(b) a statement of facts in numbered paragraphs setting out the facts on which the counterclaim is founded, incorporating by reference, if necessary, any matter contained in the defences;\n(c) appropriate pleas-in-law.",
  "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      "type": "repealed",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.36F",
    "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."
}