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Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Claim form validity - service within the jurisdiction
4 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Date of issue of the claim form
Rule
English CPR r.7.5(1), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Claim form validity - service out of the jurisdiction
6 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Date of issue of the claim form
Rule
English CPR r.7.5(2), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Service of particulars of claim after the claim form
14 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Service of the claim form
Rule
English CPR r.7.4(1)(b) and (2), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Clear days: both the trigger day and the end day are excluded
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Deemed date of service of a claim form
2 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Completion of the relevant step under CPR r.7.5(1) - but ONLY where the claim form was served by personal service or by a judge-ordered alternative method; where it was served by registered post, fax or other electronic communication, SCR 2000 r.3(2) governs deemed service instead
Rule
English CPR r.6.14 (as applied by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000, r.3(4) and r.6(1)), subject to and displaced by Supreme Court Rules 2000, r.3(2) for the methods listed in r.3(1)(b) and (c)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Deemed service by other electronic communication (Gibraltar rule)
2 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Transmission of the electronic communication
Rule
Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.3(2)(c)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Time to respond where the claim form is served outside the jurisdiction
7 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Service of the claim form outside Gibraltar
Rule
Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.3(5)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Time to respond where service is effected in the United Kingdom
Acknowledgment of service - where particulars are to follow
14 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Service of the particulars of claim
Rule
English CPR r.10.3(1)(a), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Clear days: both the trigger day and the end day are excluded
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Acknowledgment of service - in any other case
14 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Service of the claim form
Rule
English CPR r.10.3(1)(b), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Clear days: both the trigger day and the end day are excluded
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Defence - where no acknowledgment of service is filed
14 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Service of the particulars of claim
Rule
English CPR r.15.4(1)(a), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Clear days: both the trigger day and the end day are excluded
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Defence - where an acknowledgment of service is filed
28 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Service of the particulars of claim (where an acknowledgment of service has been filed)
Rule
English CPR r.15.4(1)(b), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Clear days: both the trigger day and the end day are excluded
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Agreed extension of the period for filing a defence
28 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Expiry of the period for filing a defence under CPR r.15.4
Rule
English CPR r.15.5(1)-(2), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Clear days: both the trigger day and the end day are excluded
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Application disputing the court's jurisdiction
14 days
Calculable
Time runs from
Filing of the acknowledgment of service
Rule
English CPR r.11(4)(a), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Clear days: both the trigger day and the end day are excluded
Courts - Supreme Court (Civil)
Automatic stay where a claim is neither defended nor admitted
6 months
Calculable
Time runs from
End of the period for filing a defence specified in CPR r.15.4
Rule
English CPR r.15.11(1)(a), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Judicial Review
Judicial review claim form
3 months
Needs checking
Time runs from
The date on which the grounds to make the claim first arose
Rule
English CPR r.54.5(1)-(2), with the branches in r.54.5(3)-(7), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1) and r.6(3)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
One period cannot express this provision faithfully. Check the cited rule.
Courts - Limitation
Actions founded on simple contract or on tort
72 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Date on which the cause of action accrued
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.4(1)(a)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Limitation
Personal injury claims
36 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Date on which the cause of action accrued
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.4(1), proviso
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Limitation
Extension of the three-year personal injury limit by leave of the court
36 months
Calculable
Time runs from
The date on which material facts of a decisive character first came within the claimant's actual or constructive knowledge
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.5(1) and (3)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Limitation
Actions upon a specialty
144 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Date on which the cause of action accrued
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.4(3)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Limitation
Action upon a judgment, and arrears of judgment interest
144 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Date on which the judgment became enforceable (interest: date on which the interest became due)
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.4(4)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Limitation
Actions to recover a penalty or forfeiture
24 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Date on which the cause of action accrued
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.4(5)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Limitation
Contribution between tortfeasors
24 months
Needs checking
Time runs from
Date on which the right to recover contribution accrued to the first tortfeasor
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.8(1)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
One period cannot express this provision faithfully. Check the cited rule.
Courts - Limitation
Latent damage - negligence actions not involving personal injury
36 months
Calculable
Time runs from
Accrual of the cause of action, or the 'starting date' on which the claimant first had the requisite knowledge and a right to bring the action
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.10A(3)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
Courts - Limitation
Fifteen-year long-stop for negligence actions
180 months
Calculable
Time runs from
The date, or last of the dates, on which the act or omission alleged to constitute negligence occurred
Rule
Limitation Act 1960-42, s.10B(1)
Time runs from the day after the trigger
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4 months from Date of issue of the claim form
English CPR r.7.5(1), applied in Gibraltar by Supreme Court Act 1960-02, s.38A(1) and Supreme Court Rules 2000 (LN.2000/031), r.6(1)Binding
Gibraltar has no local claim-form validity rule, so the English period applies unmodified. The statutory hook is express: Supreme Court Act s.38A(1) provides that 'the Civil Procedure Rules made (and as amended from time to time) under the Civil Procedure Act 1997 in England and Wales shall apply in Gibraltar with such modifications (for example, in nomenclature) as the circums
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