Rules of the Court of Session (amended as at August 2006)
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Chapter 1 - Citation, application, interpretation and forms
Chapter 2 - Relief from compliance with rules
Chapter 3 - Offices of the Court
Chapter 7 - Extracts and official certified copy interlocutors
Chapter 8 - Taxes on money under control of the Court
Chapter 10 - Sittings of the Court
Chapter 13 - Summonses, notice, warrants and calling
Chapter 15 - Applications by minute or note
Chapter 16 - Service, intimation and diligence
Chapter 17 - Appearance in actions
Chapter 18 - Defences and answers
Chapter 19 - Decrees in absence
Chapter 20 - Decrees by default
Chapter 22 - Making up and closing records
Chapter 24 - Amendment of pleadings
Chapter 25a - Devolution issues
Chapter 26 - Third party procedure
Chapter 27 - Documents founded on or adopted in pleadings
Chapter 28a - Notices to admit and notices of non-admission
Chapter 30 - Withdrawal of agents
Chapter 31 - Minutes of sist and transference
Chapter 32 - Transmission and remit of causes
Chapter 32a - Transfer of causes to and from the competition appeal tribunal
Chapter 33 - Caution and security
Chapter 34 - Reports to inner house
Chapter 35 - Recovery of evidence
Chapter 39 - Applications for new trial or to enter jury verdicts
Chapter 40 - Appeals from inferior Courts
Chapter 41 - Appeals under statute
- Part i - General Provisions
- Part ii - Appeals by stated case etc.
- Part iii - Appeals in form 41.19
- Part iv - Exchequer Appeals
- Part v - Appeals under the Pensions Appeal Tribunal Act 1943
- Part vi - Appeals under Section 51 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Part vii - Appeals under the representation of the people Act 1983
- Part viii - Stated cases under Section 11(3) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992
- Part ix - Appeals under Social Security Acts
- Part x - Appeals to Lord Ordinary
- Part xi - Applications under Section 103A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002
- Part xii - Appeals under the proceeds of Crime Act 2002
- Part xiii - References and Appeals under an ACAS Arbitration Scheme
Chapter 42 - Taxation of accounts and fees of solicitors
- Part i Taxation of accounts
- Part ii Fees of solicitors
- Chapter i Table of detailed charges
- Chapter ii Witnesses' fee
- Chapter iii
- Part i Undefended causes (other than consistorial actions)
- Part ii Undefended consistorial actions (other than by affidavit procedure in part iii of this chapter)
- Part iii Undefended consistorial actions (affidavit procedure)
- Part iv Outer house petitions
- Part v Defended actions
- Part va Defended personal injuries actions commenced on or after 1 april 2003
- Part vi Inner house business
- Part vii Admiralty and commercial causes, mercantile sequestrationsand applications for summary trial under section 26 of the Act of 1988 and causes remitted from the Sheriff Court
- Part viii Solicitors exercising rights of audience under section 25 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980
- Part ix General
- Chapter iv Transcripts of evidence etc.
- Part iii Fees in speculative causes
Special provisions in relation to particular proceedings
Chapter 43 - Actions of damages for, or arising from, personal injuries
Chapter 43a - Actions of harassment
Chapter 44 - Time to pay directions
Chapter 45 - Actions of division and sale
Chapter 45a - Actions of removing
Chapter 46 - Admiralty actions
Chapter 47 - Commercial actions
- Part i General provisions
- Part ii Undefended family actions
- Part iii Defended family actions
- Part iv Applications and orders relating to children in certain actions
- Part v Orders relating to financial provision etc.
- Part vi Applications relating to avoidance transactions
- Part vii Financial provision after overseas divorce or annulment
- Part viia - Financial provision after overseas dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership
- Part viii Actions of aliment
- Part ix Applications for orders under section 11 of the children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Part x Causes under the matrimonial homes (family protection) (Scotland) 1981
- Part xa - Causes under chapters 3 and 4 of part 3 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004
- Part xi Simplified divorce applications
- Part xia Simplified applications for dissolution of Civil Partnerships
- Part xii Child support Act 1991
- Part xiii Referrals to principal reporter
- Part xiv Management of money payable to children
- Part xv Management of child's property by virtue of section 9(5)(a) or 11(2)(g) of the Act of 1995
- Part xva Application by survivor for provision on intestacy
Chapter 50 - Causes under the Presumption of death (Scotland) Act 1977
Chapter 51 - Actions of multiplepoinding
Chapter 52 - Actions of proving the tenor
Chapter 53 - Actions of reduction
Chapter 54 - Applications and references under the Defamation Act 1952
Chapter 55 - Causes relating to intellectual property
Chapter 56 - Judgments of the House of Lords
Chapter 57 - Admission of advocates
Chapter 58 - Applications for judicial review
Chapter 59 - Applications for letters
Chapter 60 - Applications for suspension, suspension and interdict, and suspension and liberation
- Part i General provisions
- Part ii Applications under section 11a of the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 1889
- Part iii Discharge of judicial factors
Chapter 62 - Recognition, registration and enforcement of foreign judgments, etc.
- Part i General provisions
- Part ii Registration and Enforcement under the Administration of Justice Act 1920 and the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933
- Part iii Registration of awards under the Arbitration (international investment disputes) Act 1966
- Part iv European community judgments
- Part v Recognition and enforcement of Judgements under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 or under Council Regulation (E.C.) No 44/2201 of 22nd December 2001
- Part vi Registration under the Merchant shipping (linerconferences) Act 1982
- Part vii Reciprocal enforcement of orders in relation to confiscation of proceeds of crime and to the forfeiture of property used in crime and to forfeiture of property used in crime
- Part viii Registration of awards under the Multilateral investment guarantee agency Act 1988
- Part ix Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards under the Model law on international commercial arbitration
- Part x Recognition, registration and enforcement of miscellaneous decisions
- Part xi - Recognition, Registration and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements, under Council Regulation (E.C.) No. 2201/2003 of 27th November 2003(a)
- Part xii European Enforcement Orders
Chapter 63 - Applications relating to trusts
- Part i Variation or revocation of trusts
- Part ii Petitions by trustees for directions
- Part iii Public trusts
Chapter 64 - Applications under section 1 of the Administration of justice (Scotland) Act 1972
Chapter 65 - References to the European Court of justice
Chapter 66 - Applications under the Evidence (proceedings in other jurisdictions) Act 1975
Chapter 67 - Applications under theAdoption (Scotland) Act 1978
- Part i General provisions
- Part ii Freeing for adoption
- Part iii Adoption
- Part iv Convention adoption orders
Chapter 68 - Applications under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980
Chapter 69 - Election petitions
Chapter 70 - Applications under the Child abduction and custody Act 1985
- Part i General provisions
- Part ii International child abduction (the Hague convention)
- Part iii Recognition and enforcement of custody decisions (the European convention)
- Part iv Applications under the Hague Convention where the council regulation applies
Chapter 71 - Registration and enforcement of part i orders under the Family law Act 1986
- 71.1 Interpretation of this chapter
- 71.2 Part i orders register
- 71.3 Applications for registration of part i orders in another Court
- 71.4 Transmission of applications for registration
- 71.5 Registration of part i orders from another Court
- 71.6 Cancellation or variation of registered part i orders
- 71.7 Enforcement of registered part i orders in Scotland
- 71.8 Applications to sist or refuse enforcement proceedings
- 71.9 Orders for disclosure of information
- 71.10 Applications for interdict under section 35(3) of the Act of 1986
Chapter 72 - Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985
Chapter 73 - Rectification of documents
- Part i General provisions
- Part ii Company voluntary arrangements
- Part iii Administration procedure
- Part iv Receivers
- Part v Winding up of companies
- Part vi Disqualification of company directors
Chapter 75 - Applications relating to financial services
- Part i Applications under the Financial Services Act 1986
- Part ii Applications under the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 1995
Chapter 76 - Causes in relation to confiscation of proceeds of crime
- Part i Causes under the Proceeds of Crime (Scotland) Act 1995
- Part ii - Applications under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 or the Order of 1995
- Part iii - Applications under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Chapter 78 - Special cases under section 27 of the Court of Session Act 1988
Chapter 79 - Applications under the Access to health records Act 1990
Chapter 80 Applications in respect of qualified conveyancers and executry practitioners
Chapter 81 - Applications for parental orders under Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
Chapter 82 - The Human Rights Act 1998
Chapter 83
Chapter 84 - Applications under the Terrorism Act 2000
Chapter 85 - Applications under the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001
Chapter 86 - Applications under section 28, 28a, 62, 62a, 63, 65g or 65h of the Competition Act 1998
Chapter 87 - Causes relating to articles 81 and 82 of the treaty establishing The European Community
Chapter 88 - Civil matters involving parental responsibilities under the council regulation
Chapter 89 - Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2005
Chapter 90 Freedom of Information