DIFC and ADGM procedure guides
When is the deadline for respondent objecting to an appeal: file and serve acknowledgment of service?
Respondent electing to object to the appeal must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(1). Within seven days. The identified act is to file and serve the acknowledgment on applicant and other parties. Case management and interim appeals are excluded from this acknowledgment requirement. This is not anchored to notice-of-appeal service. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- Within seven days
- Trigger
- Actual service of the appellant's supporting argument
- Rule
- ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(1)
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
Check the applicable procedure
Source guide. Within seven days. Establish actual service of the appellant's supporting argument 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 respondent objecting to an appeal: file and serve acknowledgment of service?
Respondent electing to object to the appeal must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(1). Within seven days. The identified act is to file and serve the acknowledgment on applicant and other parties. Case management and interim appeals are excluded from this acknowledgment requirement. This is not anchored to notice-of-appeal service. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Respondent electing to object to the appeal.
Actual service of the appellant's supporting argument
Case management and interim appeals are excluded from this acknowledgment requirement. This is not anchored to notice-of-appeal service.
Source guide. Within seven days. Establish actual service of the appellant's supporting argument 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 209A(1)How does this provision count time?
- Within seven days
- 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 209A(1)Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. Within seven days. Establish actual service of the appellant's supporting argument 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 appeals are excluded from this acknowledgment requirement. This is not anchored to notice-of-appeal service.
- 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 seven days. Establish actual service of the appellant's supporting argument and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
- ADGM ordinary appellant written argument concerns file and serve the supporting written argument from actual filing of the notice of appeal, with within twenty-one days in the general branch. ADGM ordinary respondent appeal argument concerns file and serve written argument on applicant and other parties from actual service of the appellant's supporting argument, with within twenty-one days in the general branch. ADGM notice after permission to appeal concerns file and serve the notice of appeal from actual permission order, with within seven days. Those events do not replace actual service of the appellant's supporting argument for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for respondent objecting to an appeal: file and serve acknowledgment of service?
What period governs ADGM acknowledgment objecting to an appeal?
Within seven days. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(1) 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 209A(1)Which event controls ADGM acknowledgment objecting to an appeal?
Establish actual service of the appellant's supporting argument. Case management and interim appeals are excluded from this acknowledgment requirement. This is not anchored to notice-of-appeal service. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(1)Who completes the step for ADGM acknowledgment objecting to an appeal?
Respondent electing to object to the appeal. The source identifies the act as file and serve the acknowledgment on applicant and other parties. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(1)Which conditions change ADGM acknowledgment objecting to an appeal?
Case management and interim appeals are excluded from this acknowledgment requirement. This is not anchored to notice-of-appeal service. 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 209A(1)How are time and closure treated for ADGM acknowledgment objecting to an appeal?
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 209A(1)Why does ADGM acknowledgment objecting to an appeal show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual service of the appellant's supporting argument 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 209A(1)Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(1) | 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 |