When is the deadline for file certificate of service, commercial and civil division?

Claimant who served rather than the registry must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016 (as re-issued 17 October 2025, incorporating ADGM Court Procedure Rules Amendment No 1 of 2025), Part 4, rules 21(1) and 21(2)(a). Within twenty-one days of service in the ordinary Commercial and Civil branch. The identified act is to file the certificate of service. Fast Track has fourteen days. Filing is unnecessary if all other parties have acknowledged within the relevant period. Other divisions have their own response and certificate periods. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Claimant who served rather than the registry.

Actual claim-form service

Fast Track has fourteen days. Filing is unnecessary if all other parties have acknowledged within the relevant period. Other divisions have their own response and certificate periods.

Source guide. Within twenty-one days of service in the ordinary Commercial and Civil branch. Establish actual claim-form service 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 of service in the ordinary Commercial and Civil 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 of service in the ordinary Commercial and Civil branch. Establish actual claim-form service 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

Fast Track has fourteen days. Filing is unnecessary if all other parties have acknowledged within the relevant period. Other divisions have their own response and certificate periods.

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 of service in the ordinary Commercial and Civil branch. Establish actual claim-form service and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• ADGM claim form service outside the UAE concerns serve the claim form under Rule 24 from actual issue and the statutory date after issue, with within six months of the date after the date of issue, as rule28(3) states. ADGM claim form service within the UAE concerns complete the chosen method's required service step from actual issue of the claim form, with within four calendar months after issue. ADGM ordinary acknowledgment filing and service concerns file and serve the acknowledgment from actual service of the claim form, with fourteen days after service. Those events do not replace actual claim-form service for this step.

• File the certificate of service
• Fast Track has fourteen days. Filing is unnecessary if all other parties have acknowledged within the relevant period. Other divisions have their own response and certificate periods.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• File the certificate of service. Fast Track has fourteen days. Filing is unnecessary if all other parties have acknowledged within the relevant period. Other divisions have their own response and certificate periods.