When is the deadline for maximum extension of the defence period by agreement?

Parties agreeing a defence extension must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, current retained Rule 46(3)-(4), with the published internal paragraph cross-reference qualification. An extension of up to twenty-eight days. The identified act is to agree the actual extension. This is a maximum, not an automatic extension. The retained consolidation numbers this text Rule 46(3), despite older references to 46(1). This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Parties agreeing a defence extension.

Actual existing defence period and agreement

This is a maximum, not an automatic extension. The retained consolidation numbers this text Rule 46(3), despite older references to 46(1).

Source guide. An extension of up to twenty-eight days. Establish actual existing defence period and agreement and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

1. An extension of up to twenty-eight days
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. An extension of up to twenty-eight days. Establish actual existing defence period and agreement 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

This is a maximum, not an automatic extension. The retained consolidation numbers this text Rule 46(3), despite older references to 46(1).

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. An extension of up to twenty-eight days. Establish actual existing defence period and agreement and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• 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 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 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. Those events do not replace actual existing defence period and agreement for this step.

• Agree the actual extension
• This is a maximum, not an automatic extension. The retained consolidation numbers this text Rule 46(3), despite older references to 46(1).
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• Agree the actual extension. This is a maximum, not an automatic extension. The retained consolidation numbers this text Rule 46(3), despite older references to 46(1).