When is the deadline for discontinuance of action without permission?
The catalogue records a 14 days period from Service of the defence on the claimant (or the last-served defence where there are two or more defendants). 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 defence on the claimant (or the last-served defence where there are two or more defendants)
- Counting
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- Where not all defendants serve a defence and the time for one of them expires later, the trigger is the expiry of that period instead: O. 16, r. 2(3). After the 14 days, discontinuance requires the Court's permission under O. 16, r. 3.