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When is the deadline for file and serve appellant's written argument in support of the appeal (general rule)?
Appellant must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c). Within twenty-one days in the general branch. The identified act is to file and serve the supporting written argument. Case management and interim arguments accompany the notice. Judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen days after filing. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- Within twenty-one days in the general branch
- Trigger
- Actual filing of the notice of appeal
- Rule
- ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)
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 · No automated date
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Source guide. Within twenty-one days in the general branch. Establish actual filing of the notice of appeal and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
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When is the deadline for file and serve appellant's written argument in support of the appeal (general rule)?
Appellant must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c). Within twenty-one days in the general branch. The identified act is to file and serve the supporting written argument. Case management and interim arguments accompany the notice. Judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen days after filing. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Appellant.
Actual filing of the notice of appeal
Case management and interim arguments accompany the notice. Judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen days after filing.
Source guide. Within twenty-one days in the general branch. Establish actual filing of the notice of appeal and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)How does this provision count time?
- Within twenty-one days in the general branch
- 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.
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.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. Within twenty-one days in the general branch. Establish actual filing of the notice of appeal and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
Which conditions and exceptions apply?
- Applicable statutory or procedural branch
- Case management and interim arguments accompany the notice. Judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen days after filing.
- 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 in the general branch. Establish actual filing of the notice of appeal and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
- ADGM notice after permission to appeal concerns file and serve the notice of appeal from actual permission order, with within seven days. ADGM acknowledgment objecting to an appeal concerns file and serve the acknowledgment on applicant and other parties from actual service of the appellant's supporting argument, 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 filing of the notice of appeal for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for file and serve appellant's written argument in support of the appeal (general rule)?
What period governs ADGM ordinary appellant written argument?
Within twenty-one days in the general branch. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c) supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)Which event controls ADGM ordinary appellant written argument?
Establish actual filing of the notice of appeal. Case management and interim arguments accompany the notice. Judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen days after filing. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)Who completes the step for ADGM ordinary appellant written argument?
Appellant. The source identifies the act as file and serve the supporting written argument. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)Which conditions change ADGM ordinary appellant written argument?
Case management and interim arguments accompany the notice. Judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen days after filing. 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.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)How are time and closure treated for ADGM ordinary appellant written argument?
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.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)Why does ADGM ordinary appellant written argument show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual filing of the notice of appeal and applicable completion route need checking against your case. Check the actual documents and orders. No paid calculation is available.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c)Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209(2)(c) | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| ADGM Rules6-7 with Amendment No. 1 of 2025 paragraph4 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |