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Summary Cause Rules

As from 28 NOVEMBER 2016, if you are raising a claim which seeks payment for £5000 or less, delivery or recovery of possession of moveable property or an order for someone to do something specific where there is an alternative claim for £5000 or less, you should use the SIMPLE PROCEDURE.

Act of Sederunt (Summary Cause Rules) 2002 No. 132

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Chapter 1 - Citation, interpretation and application (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 2 - Representation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 2A - Lay representation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 3 - Relief from failure to comply with rules (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 4 - Commencement of action (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 04A - Personal Injury Pre-Action Protocol (?) (?) This chapter does not apply to an action where the accident, or other circumstance giving rise to the liability to which the action relates, occurred before 28th November 2016. (?)	Download
Chapter 5 - Register of summary causes, service and return of the summons (1) (?) (?) (actions lodged before 4 April 2011) (?)	Download
Chapter 5 - Register of summary causes, service and return of summons (2) (?) (?) (actions lodged on or after 4 April 2011) (?)	Download
Chapter 6 - Arrestment (1) (?) (?) (for arrestments on the dependence made prior to 1 April 2008) (?)	Download
Chapter 6 - Interim diligence (2) (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 7 - Undefended action (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 8 - Defended action (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 9 - Incidental applications and sists (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 10 - Counterclaim (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 11 - Third party procedure (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 12 - Summary decree (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 13 - Alteration of summons etc. (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 14A - Interventions by the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 14 - Additional defender (1) (?) (?) Actions lodged before 1 September 2012 (?)	Download
Chapter 14 - Additional defender (2) (?) (?) Actions lodged on or after 1 September 2012 (?)	Download
Chapter 14B - Interventions by the Scottish Commission for Human Rights (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 15 - Application for sist of party and transference (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 16 - Transfer and remit of actions (1) (?) (?) (actions lodged before 22 September 2015) (?)	Download
Chapter 16 Transfer and remit of actions (2) (?) (?) (actions lodged on or after 22 September 2015) (?)	Download
Chapter 17 - Productions and documents (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 18 - Recovery of evidence and attendance of witnesses (1) (?) (?) (actions lodged before 4 April 2011) (?)	Download
Chapter 18 - Recovery of evidence and attendance of witnesses (2) (?) (?) (actions lodged on or after 4 April 2011) (?)	Download
Chapter 18A - Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 19 - Challenge of documents (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 20 - European Court (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 21 - Abandonment (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 22 - Decree by default (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 22A - Dismissal of action due to delay (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 23 - Decrees, extracts, execution and variation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 23A - Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (?) (?) (Actions lodged on or after 30 June 2021) (?)	Download
Chapter 24 - Recall of decree (1) (?) (?) (actions raised prior to 4 April 2011 but not determined prior to 4 April 2011) (?)	Download
Chapter 24 - Recall of decree (2) (?) (?) (actions raised on or after 4 April 2011; and for actions raised and determined prior to 4 April) (?)	Download
Chapter 25 - Appeals (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 26 - Management of damages payable to persons under legal disability (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 27 - Action of multiple poinding (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 28 - Action of furthcoming (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 29 - Action of count, reckoning and payment (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 30 - Recovery of possession of heritable property (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 30A - Execution of deeds relating to heritage (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 31 - Action of sequestration for rent (?) (?) (for actions commenced prior to 1 April 2008) (?)	Download
Chapter 32 - Action for aliment (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 33 - Child Support Act 1991 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 34 - Action of damages for personal injury (1) (?) (?) Actions lodged before 1 September 2012 (?)	Download
Chapter 34 - Actions of damages for, or arising from, personal injuries (2) (?) (?) Actions lodged on or after 1 September 2012 (?)	Download
Chapter 35 - Electronic transmission of documents (?) (?) (?)	Download

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Schedule of timetable under personal injuries procedure (?) (?) (?)	Download

Appendix 1B

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The Personal Injury Pre-Action Protocol (?) (?) Does not apply to an action where the accident or other circumstance giving rise to the liability to which the action relates occurred before 28th November 2016 (?)	Download

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Glossary (?) (?) (?)	Download

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See also Act of Sederunt (Electronic Authentication) 2016 (SSI No. 2016/306)

See also Act of Sederunt (Lay Representation for Non-Natural Persons) 2016 No. 243 which comes into force on 28 November 2016.

Procedural rules for applications to the court for permission for a lay representative to conduct proceedings on behalf of a non-natural person

A "non-natural person" means:

a company (whether incorporated in the United Kingdom or elsewhere);
a limited liability partnership;
any other partnership; or
an unincorporated association of persons.

Lay Representation in civil cases

(S)SI's amending the rules

As amended by Scottish Statutory Instruments

Summary Cause Rules

As from 28 NOVEMBER 2016, if you are raising a claim which seeks payment for £5000 or less, delivery or recovery of possession of moveable property or an order for someone to do something specific where there is an alternative claim for £5000 or less, you should use the SIMPLE PROCEDURE.

Act of Sederunt (Summary Cause Rules) 2002 No. 132

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(S)SI's amending the rules

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