When is the deadline for time limited for entering appearance to a writ served within the jurisdiction?
The catalogue records a 14 days period from Service of the writ within the jurisdiction. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 14 days
- Trigger
- Service of the writ within the jurisdiction
- Counting
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- This is an express statutory override of O.3 r.2(2): the day of service is INCLUDED, so day 1 is the day of service and the period expires at the end of day 14. Getting this wrong shifts every downstream pleading date by one day. For service out of the jurisdiction there is no fixed period: by O.11 r.4(4) the order granting leave 'must limit a time within which the defendant to