DIFC and ADGM procedure guides
When is the deadline for heavy application: file and serve evidence in answer?
Respondent to a heavy application must check Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2). Within twenty-eight days thereafter. The identified act is to file and serve evidence in answer. The application must actually qualify as heavy. Its reply evidence is a separate as-soon-as-possible and fourteen-day step. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- Within twenty-eight days thereafter
- Trigger
- Actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence
- Rule
- Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)
Use the maintained DIFC rule collection and actual orders. This review selects Amended Appeals for Part 44 and keeps Former Appeals separately as historical text. It does not assume every older matter uses the current route.
Source guide · No automated date
Check the applicable procedure
Source guide. Within twenty-eight days thereafter. Establish actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
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When is the deadline for heavy application: file and serve evidence in answer?
Respondent to a heavy application must check Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2). Within twenty-eight days thereafter. The identified act is to file and serve evidence in answer. The application must actually qualify as heavy. Its reply evidence is a separate as-soon-as-possible and fourteen-day step. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Respondent to a heavy application.
Actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence
The application must actually qualify as heavy. Its reply evidence is a separate as-soon-as-possible and fourteen-day step.
Source guide. Within twenty-eight days thereafter. Establish actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)How does this provision count time?
- Within twenty-eight days thereafter
- RDC 2.12 counts days as clear days. The start day is excluded, and an event-defined end day is excluded too. RDC 2.13 excludes nonbusiness days for periods of five days or less; RDC 2.14 counts them for longer periods. RDC 2.19 uses calendar months.
- RDC 2.15 protects an act at the Registry when its prescribed period ends on a closed Registry day. It does not automatically extend every payment, service, minimum interval or conditional stay. RDC 2.17 ordinarily requires a stated-date act by 4 p.m., subject to the actual rule and order.
RDC 2.12 counts days as clear days. The start day is excluded, and an event-defined end day is excluded too. RDC 2.13 excludes nonbusiness days for periods of five days or less; RDC 2.14 counts them for longer periods. RDC 2.19 uses calendar months.
RDC 2.15 protects an act at the Registry when its prescribed period ends on a closed Registry day. It does not automatically extend every payment, service, minimum interval or conditional stay. RDC 2.17 ordinarily requires a stated-date act by 4 p.m., subject to the actual rule and order.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. Within twenty-eight days thereafter. Establish actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
Which conditions and exceptions apply?
- Applicable statutory or procedural branch
- The application must actually qualify as heavy. Its reply evidence is a separate as-soon-as-possible and fourteen-day step.
- Applicable edition and transition
- Use the maintained DIFC rule collection and actual orders. This review selects Amended Appeals for Part 44 and keeps Former Appeals separately as historical text. It does not assume every older matter uses the current route.
- Source guide. Within twenty-eight days thereafter. Establish actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
- DIFC evidence answering an ordinary application concerns file and serve evidence in answer from actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence, with within fourteen days thereafter. DIFC minimum immediate judgment hearing notice concerns give notice of the hearing date and proposed issues from actual proposed immediate-judgment hearing, with at least fourteen days of notice. DIFC application notice before the hearing concerns serve the application notice from actual filing and the actual application hearing, with as soon as practicable after filing and at least three days before the court deals with the application. Those events do not replace actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for heavy application: file and serve evidence in answer?
What period governs DIFC evidence answering a heavy application?
Within twenty-eight days thereafter. Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2) supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)Which event controls DIFC evidence answering a heavy application?
Establish actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence. The application must actually qualify as heavy. Its reply evidence is a separate as-soon-as-possible and fourteen-day step. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)Who completes the step for DIFC evidence answering a heavy application?
Respondent to a heavy application. The source identifies the act as file and serve evidence in answer. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)Which conditions change DIFC evidence answering a heavy application?
The application must actually qualify as heavy. Its reply evidence is a separate as-soon-as-possible and fourteen-day step. Use the maintained DIFC rule collection and actual orders. This review selects Amended Appeals for Part 44 and keeps Former Appeals separately as historical text. It does not assume every older matter uses the current route.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)How are time and closure treated for DIFC evidence answering a heavy application?
RDC 2.12 counts days as clear days. The start day is excluded, and an event-defined end day is excluded too. RDC 2.13 excludes nonbusiness days for periods of five days or less; RDC 2.14 counts them for longer periods. RDC 2.19 uses calendar months. RDC 2.15 protects an act at the Registry when its prescribed period ends on a closed Registry day. It does not automatically extend every payment, service, minimum interval or conditional stay. RDC 2.17 ordinarily requires a stated-date act by 4 p.m., subject to the actual rule and order.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)Why does DIFC evidence answering a heavy application show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual filing and service of the application and its supporting evidence and applicable completion route need checking against your case. Check the actual documents and orders. No paid calculation is available.
Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2)Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 23, rule 23.46(2) | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| RDC 2.11-2.20, time and variations | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |