When is the deadline for serve optional reply to points of dispute?
The catalogue records a 21 days period from Date of service on the receiving party of the points of dispute to which the reply relates. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- 21 days
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- Date of service on the receiving party of the points of dispute to which the reply relates
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- The reply is optional ("may serve"), so there is no sanction for not serving one and none for serving late, though a late reply may be excluded or attract adverse costs. Extendable by agreement under r.2.11 or by the court under r.3.1(2)(a).
- Genuinely optional, unlike points of dispute. PD 47 para 12.1: a reply "must be limited to points of principle and concessions only. It must not contain general denials, specific denials or standard form responses." Whenever practicable it must be in the form of Precedent G (PD 47 para 12.2).