When is the deadline for file and serve detailed grounds and evidence in judicial review?

Defendant or served person contesting or supporting additional grounds must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 227(1). Within thirty-five days after service. The identified act is to file and serve detailed grounds and evidence. The duty is conditional on the person's participation choice. Ordinary claim acknowledgment rules do not apply. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Defendant or served person contesting or supporting additional grounds.

Actual service of the order giving permission

The duty is conditional on the person's participation choice. Ordinary claim acknowledgment rules do not apply.

Source guide. Within thirty-five days after service. Establish actual service of the order giving permission and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

1. Within thirty-five days after service
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 thirty-five days after service. Establish actual service of the order giving permission 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

The duty is conditional on the person's participation choice. Ordinary claim acknowledgment rules do not apply.

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 thirty-five days after service. Establish actual service of the order giving permission and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• ADGM judicial review acknowledgment filing and service concerns file and then serve the acknowledgment from actual service of the claim form and later actual filing, with file within twenty-one days after service, then serve as soon as practicable and within seven days after filing. ADGM prompt judicial review claim concerns file the claim form from actual first accrual of the grounds, with promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. 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. Those events do not replace actual service of the order giving permission for this step.

• File and serve detailed grounds and evidence
• The duty is conditional on the person's participation choice. Ordinary claim acknowledgment rules do not apply.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• File and serve detailed grounds and evidence. The duty is conditional on the person's participation choice. Ordinary claim acknowledgment rules do not apply.