Chapter 9 STANDARD PROCEDURE IN DEFENDED CAUSESC1
Scotland
- 9.1Notice of intention to defend
- 9.2Fixing date for Options Hearing
- 9.2AAlteration of date for Options Hearing
- 9.3Return of initial writ
- 9.4Lodging of pleadings before Options Hearing
- 9.5Process folder
- 9.6Defences
- 9.7Implied admissions
- 9.8Adjustment of pleadings
- 9.9Effect of sist on adjustment
- 9.10Open record
- 9.11Record for Options Hearing
- 9.12Options Hearing
- 9.13Inspection and recovery of documents
- 9.14Exchange of lists of witnesses
- 9.15Applications for time to pay directions
Annotations
Modifications
- C1
Sch. 1 Ch. 9 excluded (1.11.2012) by Act of Sederunt (Jurisdiction in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children Rules) 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/192), para. 1(1), (6)
Notes on Schedule First
Textual amendments
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Sch. 1 (with appendices 1 and 2) substituted (1.1.1994) for Sch. 1 (with appendix) by S.I. 1993/1956, para. 2, Sch.1.
Sch. 1 (except rule 29.10) excluded (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/291, para. 3.24, Sch. 3
Sch. 1 extended (14.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/124, reg. 30(5)
Modifications
- C1
Sch. 1 applied (30.11.2016) by Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 21), ss. 121(5), 237(2) (with ss. 232, 234(3), 235, 236); S.S.I. 2016/294, reg. 2
- C2
Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Intimation and Service) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/301), paras. 1(2), (4), 2 (with para. 1(5))
- C3
Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Electronic Signature and Electronic Transmission of Documents) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/302), paras. 1(2), 2(1), 3-5