{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/part-1/chapter-16/rule-16.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/part-1/chapter-16/rule-16.2.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/part/1/chapter/16/rule/16.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "16.2",
  "heading": "Decrees where party in default",
  "text": "(1) In a cause to which this Chapter applies, where a party fails—\n(a) to lodge, or intimate the lodging of, any production or part of process within the period required under a provision in these Rules or an order of the sheriff,\n(b) to implement an order of the sheriff within a specified period, . . .\n(c) to appear or be represented at any diet, , or\n(d) otherwise to comply with any requirement imposed upon that party by these Rules\nthat party shall be in default.\n(2) Where a party is in default the sheriff may, as the case may be–\n(a) grant decree as craved with expenses;\n(b) grant decree of absolvitor with expenses;\n(c) dismiss the cause with expenses; or\n(d) make such other order as he thinks fit to secure the expeditious progress of the cause.\n(3) Where no party appears at a diet, the sheriff may dismiss the cause.\n(4) In this rule, “diet” includes—\n(a) a hearing under rule 9.12 (Options Hearing);\n(b) a hearing under rule 10.6 (Procedural Hearing);\n(c) a proof or proof before answer; and\n(d) a debate.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 rule 16.2(1)(b) omitted (18.8.2006) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause and Summary Application Rules) Amendment (Miscellaneous) 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/410), art. 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 16.2(1)(d) and word inserted (18.8.2006) by Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause and Summary Application Rules) Amendment (Miscellaneous) 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/410), art. 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 16.2(2) substituted (18.8.2006) by Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause and Summary Application Rules) Amendment (Miscellaneous) 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/410), art. 2(5)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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/part/1/chapter/16/rule/16.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:33:48.281591+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."
}