When is the deadline for amending a responsive pleading after service of an amended primary pleading?
The catalogue records a 14 days period from Service of the amended primary pleading under r 6-1(4)(a). 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 amended primary pleading under r 6-1(4)(a)
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- Court may extend or shorten under r 22-4(2); extension by consent under r 22-4(3).
- The obligation is conditional - it bites only if the party elects to amend its own responsive pleading to meet the amendments. The election itself is permissive under r 6-1(5)(a); the 14 day service deadline is mandatory once the election is made. Corrected on verification: the encoded wording said the party must serve "a copy of the filed amended pleading". The primary text of SCCR r 6-1(5)(b) (as amended by BC Reg 28/2024, Sch A, s 5(a)) says "a copy of the filed amended RESPONDING pleading" - it is the responding party's own amended pleading that must be served, not the opponent's. The 14 day period is confirmed. Note also the consequence in r 6-1(6): if no amended responding pleading is served, the original responding pleading is deemed to be the response to the amended pleading and any new facts in the amended pleading are deemed to be outside the defendant's knowledge.