When is the deadline for notice of intention to make an interlocutory application (high court)?

No later than 10 working days from the applicable pleading service. Notify the other parties and the court of the intended application. Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail.

Responsible actor. The party wishing to raise a listed interlocutory matter.

Service of the defendant's responsive pleading, or the applicable last responsive pleading.

Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail.

Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail.

1. Notify the other parties and the court of the intended application.
2. Retain the actual event and evidence of completion.
3. Check the operative source and any applicable order before relying on a period.

High Court Rules 1.3 and 1.17 define working days and exclude the reference event day for rule periods. Rule 1.17(3) preserves statutory reckoning.

Rule 1.18 addresses an act at a registry that cannot be done because that registry is closed. It does not carry every service act or statutory interval.

High Court Rules 2016, rule 7.4. No later than 10 working days from the applicable pleading service. Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail. This source guide requires the actual procedural branch, event and applicable completion facts before a final date can be established. No computed date or paid record is available.

The party wishing to raise a listed interlocutory matter establishes the relevant event. Service of the defendant's responsive pleading, or the applicable last responsive pleading. No later than 10 working days from the applicable pleading service. Apply the identified source branch. This illustration supplies no final date.

The procedure has a potentially different branch or direction. Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail. Resolve the specific branch before treating the ordinary period as applicable. No final date is supplied.

The event, required act or completion facts are missing. Notify the other parties and the court of the intended application. Rule 1.18 addresses an act at a registry that cannot be done because that registry is closed. It does not carry every service act or statutory interval. Withhold a computed deadline and paid record. Preserve the unresolved fact instead of assuming an endpoint.

Actual procedural event

Service of the defendant's responsive pleading, or the applicable last responsive pleading.

Required act and branch

Notify the other parties and the court of the intended application. Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail.

Completion qualification

Rule 1.18 addresses an act at a registry that cannot be done because that registry is closed. It does not carry every service act or statutory interval.

• Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail.
• This procedure concerns notify the other parties and the court of the intended application. Compare the related procedures for their own actor, event and required act. Their periods do not replace this provision.

• The party wishing to raise a listed interlocutory matter.
• Service of the defendant's responsive pleading, or the applicable last responsive pleading.
• Multiple defendants and affirmative defences or counterclaims alter the relevant last pleading. Alternative judicial directions prevail.
• Rule 1.18 addresses an act at a registry that cannot be done because that registry is closed. It does not carry every service act or statutory interval.
• Notify the other parties and the court of the intended application. Filing, service, notification, payment and discretionary applications remain distinct. No final completion date is calculated by this guide.