When is the deadline for application disputing the court's jurisdiction?

Defendant disputing jurisdiction must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 5, rules 38(3) and 38(5). Within twenty-eight days after service. The identified act is to make an evidence-supported application. An acknowledgment must first be filed and served. The application period does not start on acknowledgment filing. Fast Track and separate divisions require their own routes. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Defendant disputing jurisdiction.

Actual service of the claim

An acknowledgment must first be filed and served. The application period does not start on acknowledgment filing. Fast Track and separate divisions require their own routes.

Source guide. Within twenty-eight 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 twenty-eight 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 twenty-eight 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

An acknowledgment must first be filed and served. The application period does not start on acknowledgment filing. Fast Track and separate divisions require their own routes.

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-eight 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 optional ordinary reply to a defence concerns file the reply and serve all other parties simultaneously from actual service of the defence, with within twenty-one days after service. ADGM conditional stay after an unanswered claim concerns determine whether the claim is stayed from actual defence filing and service expiry, with at least four calendar months since expiry. ADGM maximum agreed defence extension concerns agree the actual extension from actual existing defence period and agreement, with an extension of up to twenty-eight days. Those events do not replace actual service of the claim for this step.

• Make an evidence-supported application
• An acknowledgment must first be filed and served. The application period does not start on acknowledgment filing. Fast Track and separate divisions require their own routes.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• Make an evidence-supported application. An acknowledgment must first be filed and served. The application period does not start on acknowledgment filing. Fast Track and separate divisions require their own routes.