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Rules of the Court of Session (amended as at July 2005)

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Chapter 1 - Citation, Application etc.

Chapter 2 - Relief from Compliance with Rules

Chapter 3 - Offices of the Court

Chapter 4 - The Process

Chapter 5 - Caveats

Chapter 6 - The Rolls

Chapter 7 - Extracts and Official Certified Copy Interlocutors

Chapter 8 - Taxes on Money under Control of the Court

Chapter 9 - Court Records

Chapter 10 - Sittings of the Court

Chapter 11 - Vacation Judge

Chapter 12 - Assessors

Chapter 13 - Summonses, Notice, Warrants and Calling

Chapter 14 - Petitions

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 21 - Summary Decrees

Chapter 22 - Making Up and Closing Records

Chapter 23 - Motions

Chapter 24 - Amendment of Pleadings

Chapter 25 - Counterclaims

Chapter 25A - Devolution Issues

Chapter 26 - Third Party Procedure

Chapter 27 - Documents founded on or adopted in Pleadings

Chapter 28 - Procedure Roll

Chapter 28A - Notices to Admit and Notices of Non-Admission

Chapter 29 - Abandonment

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 36 - Proofs

Chapter 37 - Jury Trials

Chapter 38 - Reclaiming

Chapter 39 - Applications for New Trial or to Enter Jury Verdicts

Chapter 40 - Appeals from Inferior Courts

Chapter 41 - Appeals under Statute

Chapter 42 - Taxation of Accounts and Fees of Solicitors

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

Chapter 48 - Exchequer Causes

Chapter 49 - Family Actions

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 1996

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

Chapter 61 - Judicial Factors

Chapter 62 - Recognition, Registration and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, etc.

Chapter 63 - Applications relating to 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 the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978

Chapter 68 - Applications under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980

Chapter 69 - Election Petitions

Chapter 70 - Applications under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985

Chapter 71 -  Registration and Enforcement of Part I Orders under the Family Law Act 1986

Chapter 72 - Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985

Chapter 73 - Rectification of Documents

Chapter 74 - Companies

Chapter 75 - Applications relating to Financial Services

Chapter 76 - Causes in relation to Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime

Chapter 77 - Summary Trials

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 - Applications for Purposes of Investigations Ordered Pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation 17 of the Council of the European Communities

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 2005

Chapter 90 - Freedom of Information

Chapter 91 - Gender Recognition Act 2004

Chapter 92 - Inquiries Act 2005

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