DIFC and ADGM procedure guides
When is the deadline for summary judgment: respondent to file and serve written evidence?
Respondent electing to rely on written evidence must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(1). At least seven days before the hearing. The identified act is to file the evidence and serve every other party. The evidence duty is conditional on relying on it. Applicant reply evidence instead uses a three-day minimum. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- At least seven days before the hearing
- Trigger
- Actual summary-judgment hearing
- Rule
- ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(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. At least seven days before the hearing. Establish actual summary-judgment 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 summary judgment: respondent to file and serve written evidence?
Respondent electing to rely on written evidence must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(1). At least seven days before the hearing. The identified act is to file the evidence and serve every other party. The evidence duty is conditional on relying on it. Applicant reply evidence instead uses a three-day minimum. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Respondent electing to rely on written evidence.
Actual summary-judgment hearing
The evidence duty is conditional on relying on it. Applicant reply evidence instead uses a three-day minimum.
Source guide. At least seven days before the hearing. Establish actual summary-judgment 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 9, rule 69(1)How does this provision count time?
- At least seven 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 9, rule 69(1)Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. At least seven days before the hearing. Establish actual summary-judgment 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
- The evidence duty is conditional on relying on it. Applicant reply evidence instead uses a three-day minimum.
- 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. At least seven days before the hearing. Establish actual summary-judgment hearing and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
- ADGM application notice and supporting evidence service concerns serve the application notice and supporting witness evidence from actual filing and the previously fixed application hearing, with as soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the hearing. ADGM proposed Fast Track acknowledgment concerns file and serve the acknowledgment and allocation response from actual service of the claim form, with within seven days of service. ADGM default judgment service by the claimant concerns serve every other party from actual date the default judgment was made, with within fourteen days. Those events do not replace actual summary-judgment hearing for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for summary judgment: respondent to file and serve written evidence?
What period governs ADGM respondent evidence before summary judgment?
At least seven days before the hearing. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(1) supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(1)Which event controls ADGM respondent evidence before summary judgment?
Establish actual summary-judgment hearing. The evidence duty is conditional on relying on it. Applicant reply evidence instead uses a three-day minimum. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(1)Who completes the step for ADGM respondent evidence before summary judgment?
Respondent electing to rely on written evidence. The source identifies the act as file the evidence and serve every other party. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(1)Which conditions change ADGM respondent evidence before summary judgment?
The evidence duty is conditional on relying on it. Applicant reply evidence instead uses a three-day minimum. 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 9, rule 69(1)How are time and closure treated for ADGM respondent evidence before summary judgment?
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 9, rule 69(1)Why does ADGM respondent evidence before summary judgment show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual summary-judgment 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 9, rule 69(1)Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 9, rule 69(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 |