When is the deadline for part 8 claim: file acknowledgment of service?

Part 8 defendant must check Rules of the DIFC Courts (RDC 2014), Part 8, rule 8.13(1). Not more than fourteen days after service. The identified act is to file Form P8/02 and serve it on the claimant and other parties. Part 8 uses its own acknowledgment duty. General Part 16 defence periods do not automatically apply. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Part 8 defendant.

Actual service of the Part 8 claim form

Part 8 uses its own acknowledgment duty. General Part 16 defence periods do not automatically apply.

Source guide. Not more than fourteen days after service. Establish actual service of the Part 8 claim form and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

1. Not more than fourteen days after service
2. 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.
3. 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.

Source guide. Not more than fourteen days after service. Establish actual service of the Part 8 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

Part 8 uses its own acknowledgment duty. General Part 16 defence periods do not automatically apply.

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. Not more than fourteen days after service. Establish actual service of the Part 8 claim form and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
• DIFC jurisdiction application after acknowledgment concerns make the evidence-supported jurisdiction application from actual filing of the acknowledgment of service, with within fourteen days after filing. DIFC conditional stay after an unanswered claim concerns determine whether the claim has become stayed from actual expiry of the applicable defence period, with at least six calendar months since that expiry. DIFC judgment request after an admission concerns file the request for judgment from actual service of the admission on the claimant, with fourteen days after service before the stay consequence. Those events do not replace actual service of the part8 claim form for this step.

• File Form P8/02 and serve it on the claimant and other parties
• Part 8 uses its own acknowledgment duty. General Part 16 defence periods do not automatically apply.
• Check the actual order and applicable edition.
• File Form P8/02 and serve it on the claimant and other parties. Part 8 uses its own acknowledgment duty. General Part 16 defence periods do not automatically apply.