When is the deadline for file and serve simplified costs budget (precedent z) under pd 51zg2?
The catalogue records a 21 days period from Date of the first case management conference. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 21 days
- Trigger
- Date of the first case management conference
- Counting
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- "Unless the court orders otherwise". PD 51ZG2 para 2 states "Rules 3.13 and 3.14 shall not apply", so the automatic budget-limited-to-court-fees sanction does not bite. Para 9 gives the court a discretionary power to impose sanctions "which may include limiting the recovery of the costs to be incurred to the applicable court fees".
- Applies to Part 7 multi-track claims issued on or after 6 April 2025 and before 6 April 2028, valued at less than £1 million, to which neither PD 51ZG1 nor r.44.13 applies, and proceeding in the County Court at Central London or the Leeds or Bristol District Registries (para 3(a)). Venue is determinative: the same claim outside those three courts falls under r.3.13/r.3.14 inste