When is the deadline for request an oral hearing to challenge a provisional assessment?
The catalogue records a 21 days period from Receipt of the court's notice sent with the provisionally assessed bill. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 21 days
- Trigger
- Receipt of the court's notice sent with the provisionally assessed bill
- Counting
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- The rule sets its own escape: the assessment becomes binding "save in exceptional circumstances". That is a materially higher threshold than the ordinary relief-from-sanctions test and is rarely satisfied. Treat as a hard cut-off. The court retains a general power to extend under r.3.1(2)(a) but should not be assumed to exercise it.
- This is the single hardest date in the provisional assessment regime. The trigger is RECEIPT of the notice, not the date the court sent it, so the engine needs a receipt date input. Both filing AND service are required within the 21 days. The request must identify the items sought to be reviewed and give a time estimate (r.47.15(8)). Costs consequences on the requesting party u