When is the deadline for file and serve acknowledgment of service?

Defendant must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016 (as re-issued 17 October 2025, incorporating ADGM Court Procedure Rules Amendment No 1 of 2025), Part 5, rules 37(1) and 37(2). Fourteen days after service. The identified act is to file and serve the acknowledgment. A claim proposed for Fast Track allocation instead uses Rule 326. Both actual filing and service are required. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Defendant.

Actual service of the claim form

A claim proposed for Fast Track allocation instead uses Rule 326. Both actual filing and service are required.

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

1. Fourteen 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. Fourteen days after service. Establish actual service of the claim form 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

A claim proposed for Fast Track allocation instead uses Rule 326. Both actual filing and service are required.

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. Fourteen days after service. Establish actual service of the claim form and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• ADGM ordinary answer to a claim concerns file and serve the applicable answer from actual service of the claim, with within twenty-eight days after service. ADGM defence filing and service concerns file a defence and serve every other party from actual service of the claim, with within twenty-eight days after service. 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 form for this step.

• File and serve the acknowledgment
• A claim proposed for Fast Track allocation instead uses Rule 326. Both actual filing and service are required.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• File and serve the acknowledgment. A claim proposed for Fast Track allocation instead uses Rule 326. Both actual filing and service are required.