DIFC and ADGM procedure guides
When is the deadline for serve application notice and evidence in support before the hearing?
Applicant must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b). As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. The identified act is to serve the application notice and supporting witness evidence. Another rule, practice direction, enactment or order may alter the route. Without-notice permission and previously served evidence require separate review. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing
- Trigger
- Actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing
- Rule
- ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b)
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. As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. Establish actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing 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 serve application notice and evidence in support before the hearing?
Applicant must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b). As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. The identified act is to serve the application notice and supporting witness evidence. Another rule, practice direction, enactment or order may alter the route. Without-notice permission and previously served evidence require separate review. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Applicant.
Actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing
Another rule, practice direction, enactment or order may alter the route. Without-notice permission and previously served evidence require separate review.
Source guide. As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. Establish actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing 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 8, rule 64(5)(b)How does this provision count time?
- As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing
- 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 8, rule 64(5)(b)Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. Establish actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing 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
- Another rule, practice direction, enactment or order may alter the route. Without-notice permission and previously served evidence require separate review.
- 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. As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. Establish actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
- ADGM respondent evidence before summary judgment concerns file the evidence and serve every other party from actual summary-judgment hearing, with at least seven days before the hearing. ADGM default judgment service by the claimant concerns serve every other party from actual date the default judgment was made, with within fourteen days. ADGM conditional stay after an unanswered claim concerns determine whether the claim is stayed from actual defence filing and service expiry, with at least four calendar months since expiry. Those events do not replace actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for serve application notice and evidence in support before the hearing?
What period governs ADGM application notice and supporting evidence service?
As soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b) supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b)Which event controls ADGM application notice and supporting evidence service?
Establish actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing. Another rule, practice direction, enactment or order may alter the route. Without-notice permission and previously served evidence require separate review. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b)Who completes the step for ADGM application notice and supporting evidence service?
Applicant. The source identifies the act as serve the application notice and supporting witness evidence. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b)Which conditions change ADGM application notice and supporting evidence service?
Another rule, practice direction, enactment or order may alter the route. Without-notice permission and previously served evidence require separate review. 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 8, rule 64(5)(b)How are time and closure treated for ADGM application notice and supporting evidence service?
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 8, rule 64(5)(b)Why does ADGM application notice and supporting evidence service show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing 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 8, rule 64(5)(b)Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 8, rule 64(5)(b) | 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 |