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Chapter 4 - The Process (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 5 - Caveats (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 6 - The Rolls (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 7 - Extracts and Official Certified Copy Interlocutors (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 8 - Taxes on Money under Control of the Court (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 9 - Court Records (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 10 - Court Sittings (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 11 - Vacation Judge (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 12 - Assessors (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 12a - Lay Support for Party Litigants (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 12b - Lay Representation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 12C - Mode of Attendance at Hearings (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 13 - Summonses, Notice, Warrants and Calling (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 14 - Petitions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 14a - Interim Diligence (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 14B - Determination of the Value of an Order (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 15 - Applications by Minute or Note (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 16 - Service, Intimation and Diligence (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 17 - Appearance in Actions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 18 - Defences and Answers (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 19 - Decrees in Absence (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 20 - Decrees by Default (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 21 - Summary Decrees (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 21a.1 Dismissal of a claim due to delay (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 22 - Making Up and Closing Records (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 23 - Motions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 24 - Amendment of Pleadings (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 25 - Counterclaims (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 25a - Devolution Issues (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 26 - Third Party Procedure (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 26A - Group Procedure (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 27 - Documents founded on or adopted in Pleadings (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 28 - Procedure Roll (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 28a - Notices to Admit and Notices of Non-Admission (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 29 - Abandonment (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 30 - Withdrawal of Agents (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 31 - Minutes of Sist and Transference (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 32 - Transmission and Remit of Causes (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 32a - Transfer of Causes to and from the Competition Appeal Tribunal (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 33 - Caution and Security (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 34 - Reports to Inner House (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 34A - Pursuers' Offers (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 35 - Recovery of Evidence (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 35a - Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 35b - Lodging Audio or Audio-Visual Recordings of Children (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 36 - Proofs (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 37 - Jury Trials (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 37a - Procedural Business in the Inner House (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 38 - Reclaiming (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 39 - Applications for New Trial or to Enter Jury Verdicts (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 40 - Appeals from Inferior Courts (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 41 - Appeals under Statute (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 41A - Appeals to the Supreme Court (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 41b - Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 42 - Taxation of Accounts and Fees of Solicitors (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 42A - From 1 March 2020 - Case management of certain personal injuries actions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 42A - before 1 March 2020 - Case management of certain personal injury actions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 43 - Action of damages arising from personal injuries (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 43a - Actions of Harassment (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 44 - Time to Pay Directions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 45 - Actions of Division and Sale (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 45a - Actions of Removing (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 46 - Admiralty Actions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 47 - Commercial Actions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 48 - Exchequer Causes (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 49 - Family Actions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 50 - Causes under the Presumption of Death (Scotland) Act 1977 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 51 - Actions of Multiplepoinding (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 52 - Actions of Proving the Tenor (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 53 - Actions of Reduction (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 54 - Applications and References under the Defamation Act 1996 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 55 - Causes relating to Intellectual property (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 56 - Judgments of the House of Lords (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 56a - Judgements of the Supreme Court (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 57 - Admission of Advocates (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 58 - Judicial Review (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 58A - Protective Expenses Orders in Environment Appeals and Judicial Reviews (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 58A - From 10 December 2018 (?) Protective Expenses Orders in Environmental Appeals and Judicial Reviews (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 59 - Applications for Letters (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 60 - Applications for Suspension, Suspension and Interdict, and Suspension and Liberation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 61 - Judicial Factors (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 62 - Recognition, Registration and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, Etc. (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 63 - Applications relating to Trusts (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 64 - Applications under Section 1 of the Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1972 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 65 - References to the European Court of Justice (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 66 - Applications under the Evidence (Proceedings in other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 67 - Applications under the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 68 - Applications under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 69 - Election Petitions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 70 - Applications under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 71 - Registration and Enforcement of Part I Orders under the Family Law Act 1986 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 72 - Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 73 - Rectification of Documents (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 74 - Companies (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 74A - Orders against Insolvency Practitioners and Recognised Professional Bodies (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 75 - Applications relating to Financial Services (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 76 - Causes in relation to Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 76A - Serious Crime Prevention Orders (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 77 - Summary Trials (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 78 - Special cases under Section 27 of the Court of Session Act 1988 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 79 - Applications under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 80 - Applications in respect of Qualified Conveyancers and Executry Practitioners (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 81 - Applications for Parental Orders Under Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 82 - The Human Rights Act 1998 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 84 - Applications under the Terrorism Act 2000 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 85 - Applications under the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 85a - Domestic Abuse Interdicts (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 86 - Applications under Section 28, 28A, 62, 62A, 63, 65G or 65H of the Competition Act 1998 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 86A (?) Applications in Competition Proceedings (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 87 - Causes relating to Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 88 - Civil Matters involving Parental Responsibilities under the Council Regulation (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 89 - Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 90 - Freedom of Information (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 91 - Gender Recognition Act 2004 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 92 - Inquiries Act 2005 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 93 - Live Links (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 94 - Interventions by the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 95 - Scottish Commission for Human Rights (?) Scottish Commission for Human Rights (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 96 - Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 - Financial Restrictions Proceedings (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 97 - Applications for Parental Orders under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 99 - Energy Act 2008 - Interdicts (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 100 - Arbitration (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 102 - Reporting Restrictions (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 103 - Forced Marriage Appendix (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 104 - Justice and Security Act 2013 (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 105 – Land Registration (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 106 - Mutual Recognition of Protection Measures in Civil Matters (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 107 - Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 - Temporary Exclusion Orders (?) Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 - Temporary Exclusion Orders (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 108 - Challenges to Validity of EU Instruments (EU Exit) (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 109 - Care Homes Emergency Intervention Orders (?) (?) (?)	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.

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