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When is the deadline for apply to set aside an order recognising or permitting enforcement of an award?
Defendant to a without-notice enforcement order must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4). Within fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service. The identified act is to apply to set aside if desired. The challenge is optional. Enforcement remains barred until the period ends or a timely challenge is finally disposed of. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- Within fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service
- Trigger
- Actual service of the order
- Rule
- ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4)
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 fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service. Establish actual service of the order 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 apply to set aside an order recognising or permitting enforcement of an award?
Defendant to a without-notice enforcement order must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4). Within fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service. The identified act is to apply to set aside if desired. The challenge is optional. Enforcement remains barred until the period ends or a timely challenge is finally disposed of. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Defendant to a without-notice enforcement order.
Actual service of the order
The challenge is optional. Enforcement remains barred until the period ends or a timely challenge is finally disposed of.
Source guide. Within fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service. Establish actual service of the order 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 27, rule 234(4)How does this provision count time?
- Within fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas 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 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 27, rule 234(4)Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. Within fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service. Establish actual service of the order 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 challenge is optional. Enforcement remains barred until the period ends or a timely challenge is finally disposed of.
- 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 fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service. Establish actual service of the order and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
- ADGM ordinary arbitration claim form service concerns serve the arbitration claim form on the defendant from actual issue of the form, with within one calendar month from issue. ADGM Part 18 offer minimum acceptance period concerns specify the acceptance period and required consequences from actual offer terms and actual trial timing, with not less than twenty-one days. ADGM detailed judicial review grounds after permission concerns file and serve detailed grounds and evidence from actual service of the order giving permission, with within thirty-five days after service. Those events do not replace actual service of the order for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for apply to set aside an order recognising or permitting enforcement of an award?
What period governs ADGM optional challenge to a without-notice award order?
Within fourteen days, or another Court-set period for overseas service. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4) supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4)Which event controls ADGM optional challenge to a without-notice award order?
Establish actual service of the order. The challenge is optional. Enforcement remains barred until the period ends or a timely challenge is finally disposed of. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4)Who completes the step for ADGM optional challenge to a without-notice award order?
Defendant to a without-notice enforcement order. The source identifies the act as apply to set aside if desired. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4)Which conditions change ADGM optional challenge to a without-notice award order?
The challenge is optional. Enforcement remains barred until the period ends or a timely challenge is finally disposed of. 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 27, rule 234(4)How are time and closure treated for ADGM optional challenge to a without-notice award order?
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 27, rule 234(4)Why does ADGM optional challenge to a without-notice award order show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual service of the order 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 27, rule 234(4)Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 27, rule 234(4) | 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 |