When is the deadline for respondent's written argument in response to the appeal (general rule)?

Respondent electing to object must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 25, rule 209A(2)(c). Within twenty-one days in the general branch. The identified act is to file and serve written argument on applicant and other parties. Case management and interim appeals use seven days; judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen. The acknowledgment is a separate step. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Respondent electing to object.

Actual service of the appellant's supporting argument

Case management and interim appeals use seven days; judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen. The acknowledgment is a separate step.

Source guide. Within twenty-one days in the general branch. 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.

1. Within twenty-one days in the general branch
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 in the general branch. 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.

Applicable statutory or procedural branch

Case management and interim appeals use seven days; judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen. The acknowledgment is a separate step.

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 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 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 optional ordinary appellant reply argument concerns file and serve written reply argument from actual respondent argument and expiry of other respondents' argument periods, with within fourteen days in the general branch. 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. Those events do not replace actual service of the appellant's supporting argument for this step.

• File and serve written argument on applicant and other parties
• Case management and interim appeals use seven days; judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen. The acknowledgment is a separate step.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• File and serve written argument on applicant and other parties. Case management and interim appeals use seven days; judicial-review permission refusal appeals use fourteen. The acknowledgment is a separate step.