DIFC and ADGM procedure guides
When is the deadline for file judicial review claim form?
Judicial-review claimant must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(1). Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. The identified act is to file the claim form. An ADGM enactment's shorter review limit prevails. A separate service duty runs seven days from actual issue, not from accrual. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual
- Trigger
- Actual first accrual of the grounds
- Rule
- ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(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. Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. Establish actual first accrual of the grounds 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 file judicial review claim form?
Judicial-review claimant must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(1). Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. The identified act is to file the claim form. An ADGM enactment's shorter review limit prevails. A separate service duty runs seven days from actual issue, not from accrual. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Judicial-review claimant.
Actual first accrual of the grounds
An ADGM enactment's shorter review limit prevails. A separate service duty runs seven days from actual issue, not from accrual.
Source guide. Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. Establish actual first accrual of the grounds 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 26, rule 220(1)How does this provision count time?
- Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual
- 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 26, rule 220(1)Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. Establish actual first accrual of the grounds 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
- An ADGM enactment's shorter review limit prevails. A separate service duty runs seven days from actual issue, not from accrual.
- 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. Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. Establish actual first accrual of the grounds 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 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. ADGM Small Claims and short lease appeal notice concerns file and serve the notice on all other parties from actual final judgment or order, using the later date if both differ, with within fourteen days unless the court orders otherwise. Those events do not replace actual first accrual of the grounds for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for file judicial review claim form?
What period governs ADGM prompt judicial review claim?
Promptly and in any event within three calendar months after accrual. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(1) supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(1)Which event controls ADGM prompt judicial review claim?
Establish actual first accrual of the grounds. An ADGM enactment's shorter review limit prevails. A separate service duty runs seven days from actual issue, not from accrual. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(1)Who completes the step for ADGM prompt judicial review claim?
Judicial-review claimant. The source identifies the act as file the claim form. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(1)Which conditions change ADGM prompt judicial review claim?
An ADGM enactment's shorter review limit prevails. A separate service duty runs seven days from actual issue, not from accrual. 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 26, rule 220(1)How are time and closure treated for ADGM prompt judicial review claim?
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 26, rule 220(1)Why does ADGM prompt judicial review claim show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual first accrual of the grounds 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 26, rule 220(1)Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 26, rule 220(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 |