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Home > Rules and Practice > Rules of Court > Sheriff Court - Civil Procedure Rules > Summary Cause Rules

Summary Cause Rules

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

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Chapter 1 - Citation, interpretation and application
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Chapter 2 - Representation
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Chapter 2A - Lay representation
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Chapter 3 - Relief from failure to comply with rules
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Chapter 4 - Commencement of action
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Chapter 5 - Register of summary causes, service and return of the summons (1)
(actions lodged before 4 April 2011)
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Chapter 5 - Register of summary causes, service and return of summons (2)
(actions lodged on or after 4 April 2011)
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Chapter 6 - Arrestment (1)
(for arrestments on the dependence made prior to 1 April 2008)
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Chapter 6 - Interim diligence (2)
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Chapter 7 - Undefended action
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Chapter 8 - Defended action
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Chapter 9 - Incidental applications and sists
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Chapter 10 - Counterclaim
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Chapter 11 - Third party procedure
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Chapter 12 - Summary decree
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Chapter 13 - Alteration of summons etc.
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Chapter 13B - Interventions by the Scottish Commission for Human Rights
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Chapter 14 - Additional defender (1)
Actions lodged before 1 September 2012
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Chapter 14 - Additional defender (2)
Actions lodged on or after 1 September 2012
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Chapter 14B - Interventions by the Scottish Commission for Human Rights
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Chapter 15 - Application for sist of party and transference
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Chapter 16 - Transfer and remit of actions
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Chapter 17 - Productions and documents
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Chapter 18 - Recovery of evidence and attendance of witnesses (1)
(actions lodged before 4 April 2011)
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Chapter 18 - Recovery of evidence and attendance of witnesses (2)
(actions lodged on or after 4 April 2011)
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Chapter 18A - Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004
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Chapter 19 - Challenge of documents
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Chapter 20 - European Court
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Chapter 21 - Abandonment
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Chapter 22 - Decree by default
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Chapter 22A - Dismissal of action due to delay
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Chapter 23 - Decrees, extracts, execution and variation
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Chapter 24 - Recall of decree (1)
(actions raised prior to 4 April 2011 but not determined prior to 4 April 2011)
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Chapter 24 - Recall of decree (2)
(actions raised on or after 4 April 2011; and for actions raised and determined prior to 4 April)
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Chapter 25 - Appeals
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Chapter 26 - Management of damages payable to persons under legal disability
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Chapter 27 - Action of multiple poinding
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Chapter 28 - Action of furthcoming
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Chapter 29 - Action of count, reckoning and payment
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Chapter 30 - Recovery of posession of heritable property
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Chapter 31 - Actions relating to heritable property
(for actions commenced prior to 1 April 2008)
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Chapter 32 - Action for aliment
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Chapter 33 - Child Support Act 1991
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Chapter 34 - Action of damages for personal injury (1)
Actions lodged before 1 September 2012
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Chapter 34 - Actions of damages for, or arising from, personal injuries (2)
Actions lodged on or after 1 September 2012
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Chapter 35 - Electronic transmission of documents
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Chapter 36 - Equality enactments (1)
Actions lodged before 1 October 2010
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Chapter 36 - The Equality Act 2010 (2)
Actions lodged on or after 1 October 2010
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Chapter 37 - Live Links
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Appendix 1 -Forms
Appendix 2
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Glossary
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