When is the deadline for automatic stay where claim is not defended or admitted?

Court and parties considering procedural status must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 6, rule 47(2). At least four calendar months since expiry. The identified act is to determine whether the claim is stayed. No admission, defence or counterclaim and no claimant default or summary judgment application may intervene. Separate divisions are excluded. This is a conditional status, not a filing duty. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Court and parties considering procedural status.

Actual defence filing and service expiry

No admission, defence or counterclaim and no claimant default or summary judgment application may intervene. Separate divisions are excluded. This is a conditional status, not a filing duty.

Source guide. At least four calendar months since expiry. Establish actual defence filing and service expiry and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

1. At least four calendar months since expiry
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. At least four calendar months since expiry. Establish actual defence filing and service expiry 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

No admission, defence or counterclaim and no claimant default or summary judgment application may intervene. Separate divisions are excluded. This is a conditional status, not a filing duty.

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. At least four calendar months since expiry. Establish actual defence filing and service expiry and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• ADGM jurisdiction application after claim service concerns make an evidence-supported application from actual service of the claim, with within twenty-eight days after service. ADGM default judgment service by the claimant concerns serve every other party from actual date the default judgment was made, with within fourteen days. 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. Those events do not replace actual defence filing and service expiry for this step.

• Determine whether the claim is stayed
• No admission, defence or counterclaim and no claimant default or summary judgment application may intervene. Separate divisions are excluded. This is a conditional status, not a filing duty.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• Determine whether the claim is stayed. No admission, defence or counterclaim and no claimant default or summary judgment application may intervene. Separate divisions are excluded. This is a conditional status, not a filing duty.