When is the deadline for apply for permission to appeal to the court of appeal (general rule)?

Appellant seeking permission in the ordinary branch must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 206(2)(c). Within twenty-one days after the event. The identified act is to file and serve the application notice and supporting argument. Case management and interim orders use seven days; judicial-review permission refusals use ten. Small Claims and short residential leases have their separate appeal route. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Appellant seeking permission in the ordinary branch.

Actual order or judgment, using the later date if both differ

Case management and interim orders use seven days; judicial-review permission refusals use ten. Small Claims and short residential leases have their separate appeal route.

Source guide. Within twenty-one days after the event. Establish actual order or judgment, using the later date if both differ and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

1. Within twenty-one days after the event
2. ADGM Rule 6 counts days as clear days, excluding the start and an event-defined end. For periods of five days or less, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays do not count. Actual month periods and operative events need their own source review.
3. Current Rule 7(5), as amended on October 17, 2025, concerns a specified act whose period ends on a closed registry day, subject to the relevant practice direction. The amendment removed the old restriction to acts at the registry. Minimum notice, status and agreed caps remain distinct; no automatic final date is shown.

ADGM Rule 6 counts days as clear days, excluding the start and an event-defined end. For periods of five days or less, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays do not count. Actual month periods and operative events need their own source review.

Current Rule 7(5), as amended on October 17, 2025, concerns a specified act whose period ends on a closed registry day, subject to the relevant practice direction. The amendment removed the old restriction to acts at the registry. Minimum notice, status and agreed caps remain distinct; no automatic final date is shown.

Source guide. Within twenty-one days after the event. Establish actual order or judgment, using the later date if both differ and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

Applicable statutory or procedural branch

Case management and interim orders use seven days; judicial-review permission refusals use ten. Small Claims and short residential leases have their separate appeal route.

Applicable edition and transition

The maintained official ADGM index links the consolidated Rules and Amendment No. 1 of 2025, reissued October 17, 2025. Current division, Fast Track allocation, practice directions and orders remain material. This guide does not assume a historical matter uses that edition.

• Source guide. Within twenty-one days after the event. Establish actual order or judgment, using the later date if both differ and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• ADGM permission for an interim or case management appeal concerns file and serve the application notice and supporting argument from actual order or judgment, using the later date if both differ, with within seven days. ADGM renewed permission application after refusal concerns file and serve a further application to the Court of Appeal from actual date of refusal, with within seven days. ADGM ordinary objection to permission to appeal concerns file and serve written argument on applicant and other parties from actual service of both the application notice and supporting argument, with within twenty-one days in the general branch. Those events do not replace actual order or judgment, using the later date if both differ for this step.

• File and serve the application notice and supporting argument
• Case management and interim orders use seven days; judicial-review permission refusals use ten. Small Claims and short residential leases have their separate appeal route.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• File and serve the application notice and supporting argument. Case management and interim orders use seven days; judicial-review permission refusals use ten. Small Claims and short residential leases have their separate appeal route.