When is the deadline for real property division: respond to a short-term residential lease claim?

Defendant to a short-term residential lease claim must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 41, rule 338(2). Within seven days after service. The identified act is to file the applicable answer. The actual claim must fit the statutory short-term residential lease definition. General Real Property twenty-one-day periods do not apply. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Defendant to a short-term residential lease claim.

Actual service of the claim

The actual claim must fit the statutory short-term residential lease definition. General Real Property twenty-one-day periods do not apply.

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

1. Within seven 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 seven days after service. Establish actual service of the claim 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 actual claim must fit the statutory short-term residential lease definition. General Real Property twenty-one-day periods 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 seven days after service. Establish actual service of the claim and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• ADGM ordinary Real Property response concerns file the applicable answer from actual service of the claim, with within twenty-one days after service. ADGM permission for an interim or case management appeal concerns file and serve the application notice and supporting argument from actual order or judgment, using the later date if both differ, with within seven days. ADGM Employment Division response concerns file the applicable answer from actual service of the claim, with within fourteen days after service. Those events do not replace actual service of the claim for this step.

• File the applicable answer
• The actual claim must fit the statutory short-term residential lease definition. General Real Property twenty-one-day periods do not apply.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• File the applicable answer. The actual claim must fit the statutory short-term residential lease definition. General Real Property twenty-one-day periods do not apply.