When is the deadline for minimum period an offer of compromise must remain open?
The catalogue records a 28 days period from The date on which the offer of compromise is made. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 28 days
- Trigger
- The date on which the offer of compromise is made
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- The rule fixes a minimum, not a maximum; the offeror may specify a longer period. r 20.26(2)(f) requires the offer to specify the period of time within which it is open for acceptance. Not computed.
- An offer that does not comply with r 20.26 does not attract the UCPR Pt 42 costs consequences (rr 42.14 and 42.15) and falls to be treated, if at all, as a Calderbank offer. r 20.26(11) provides that, unless the court orders otherwise, an offer may not be withdrawn during the period of acceptance. Encoded as a minimum: the closing date must be at least this far out. Corrected on verification: pinpoint narrowed from r 20.26 to r 20.26(5)(a), and the reference point corrected from "the date of trial" to "the date set down for commencement of the trial", which is the wording the rule actually uses.