March 2001

Chapter 19 - Court Practice and Procedure

19.1 Introduction

This chapter is divided into 10 parts as follows;

Part 1 - Courts dealing with insolvency proceedings (paragraphs 19.2 - 19.5).

Part 2 - The Woolf reforms and the Civil Procedure Rules (paragraphs 19.6 - 19.13).

Part 3 - Commencement of proceedings (paragraphs 19.14 - 19.19).

Part 4 - Applications to Court (paragraphs 19.20 - 19.58).

Part 5 - Court hearings (paragraphs 19.59 - 19.70).

Part 6 - Acting as a witness (paragraphs 19.71 -19.79).

Part 7 - Service of documents (paragraphs 19.80 - 19.97).

Part 8 - Court Records and Returns (paragraphs 19.98 - 19.109).

Part 9 - Persons Incapable of Managing Their Affairs (paragraphs 19.110 - 19.114).

Part 10 - Miscellaneous provisions relating to court practice and procedure (paragraphs 19.115 - 19.128).

Annex 1 - Glossary of terms

Annex 2 - Specimen application to court - Bankruptcy

Annex 3 - Specimen application to court - Companies

Annex 4 - The judiciary

Annex 5 - Table to show deemed day of service

The following abbreviations are used in this chapter:

CPR - Civil Procedure Rules, 1998.

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