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Ordinary Cause Rules

ACT OF SEDERUNT (SHERIFF COURT ORDINARY CAUSE RULES) 1993 No.1956 (S.223)

Schedule 1

Arrangement of Ordinary Cause Rules.

Initiation and progress of causes

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Chapter 28A - Pre-Proof Hearing (3) (?) (?) (Actions commenced on or after 25 September 2023) (?)	Download
Chapter 29 - Proof (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 30 - Decrees, Extracts and Execution (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 31 - Appeals (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 31A - Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (?) (?) (Actions lodged on or after 30 June 2021) (?)	Download
Chapter 32 - Taxation of expenses (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 32A - Live links (?) (?) Revoked wef 3 July 2023 subject to the saving provisions of Rule 4(2) of SSI 2023/168 (?)	Download

Special provisions in relation to particular causes

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Chapter 53 - Proving the Tenor (?) (?) (?)	Download
Chapter 54 - Reduction (?) (?) (?)	Download

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Forms for extract decrees

Appendix 3

Schedule of Timetable under personal injuries procedure

Appendix 4

The Personal Injury Pre-Action Protocol

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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 Statutory Instruments

Scottish Statutory Instruments