When is the deadline for service of defence to counterclaim?
The catalogue records a 21 days period from Service on the plaintiff of the counterclaim. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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Calculation basis and source
- Period
- 21 days
- Trigger
- Service on the plaintiff of the counterclaim
- Counting
- The encoded calculator method must be independently documented before publication.
- Rollovers and holidays
- Holiday, closure and order treatment must be independently documented before publication.
This route remains in preparation until a pinpoint official source is recorded.
- Where both a reply and a defence to counterclaim are served they must be in the same document (Order 18 rule 3(3)). Subject to the Long Vacation exclusion.