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DIFC Courts

Legal Framework

Rules of the DIFC Court

Small Claims Tribunal

Practice Directions & Registrar Directions

Judgments, Orders & Decrees

List of Cases & Sittings of Judges

Upcoming DIFC Courts Events

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Contents:

Legal Framework

Protocols and MoUs

Rules of the DIFC Court

PART 1 — Citation, commencement, application and the overriding objective

PART 2 — Interpretation

PART 3 — Organisation of the Court

PART 4 — The Court's case management powers

PART 5 — Forms

PART 6 — Court documents

PART 7 — How to start proceedings — the claim form

PART 8 — Alternative procedure for claims

PART 9 — Service

PART 10 — Responding to particulars of claim — General

PART 11 — Acknowledgment of service

PART 12 — Disputing the Court's jurisdiction

PART 13 — Default judgment

PART 14 — Setting aside or varying default judgment

PART 15 — Admissions

PART 16 — Defence and reply

PART 17 — Statements of case

PART 18 — Amendments to statements of case

PART 19 — Further information

PART 20 — Addition and substitution of parties

PART 21 — Counterclaims and other additional claims

PART 22 — Statements of truth

PART 23 — General Rules about applications for Court orders

PART 24 — Immediate judgment

PART 25 — Interim remedies and security for costs

PART 26 — Case Management

PART 27 — Justice by reconciliation

PART 28 — Production of documents

PART 29 — Evidence

PART 30 — Witnesses, depositions and evidence for other Courts

PART 31 — Experts and assessors

PART 32 — Offers to settle

PART 33 — Payments into Court

PART 34 — Discontinuance

PART 35 — Miscellaneous provisions relating to hearings

PART 36 — Judgments and Orders

PART 37 — Change of Legal Representative

PART 38 — General Rules about costs

PART 39 — Fixed costs

PART 40 — Procedure for detailed assessment of costs

PART 41 — Proceedings by or against the Centre, its Bodies and the Government

PART 42 — Judicial Review

PART 43 — Arbitration Claims

PART 44 — Appeals

PART 45 — General Rules about enforcement of judgments and orders

PART 46 — Charging orders, stop orders and stop notices

PART 47 — Attachment of future assets and earnings

PART 48 — Execution against assets

PART 49 — Court's power to appoint a receiver

PART 50 — Orders to obtain information from judgment debtors

PART 51 — Interpleader

PART 52 — Contempt of Court

PART 53 — The Small Claims Tribunal

Small Claims Tribunal

Processes & Procedures

DIFC Courts' Pro Bono Programme Guidelines

DIFC Courts' Pro Bono Programme Leader Appointment Letter

Practice Directions & Registrar Directions

Practice Directions

Registrar Directions

Judgments, Orders & Decrees

List of Cases & Sittings of Judges

Judges' Addresses

Upcoming DIFC Courts Events

13th October 2009 — Court Reporting Seminar, presented by Michael Peel, Legal Correspondent for the Financial Times.

22nd October 2009 — DIFC Courts Code of Professional Conduct Seminar

9th December 2009 — DIFC Courts' Lecture Series — Lecture 5 Jurisdiction and an Insight on the Courts

7th February 2010 — Towards Economic Recovery — The Role of the Courts & Arbitration

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