Scotland procedural deadlines
When is the deadline for judicial review: application?
Before the end of 3 months beginning with that date, or a longer equitable period. Section 27A (2) preserves any shorter statutory limit. Identify first-arising grounds, actual remedy and permission requirements rather than substituting later correspondence or reasons. The calculator requires the actual event and each condition of the selected branch.
- Period
- Before the end of 3 months beginning with that date, or a longer equitable period
- Trigger
- the actual date on which the grounds first arose
- Rule
- Court of Session Act 1988 s27A
Current maintained Court of Session rules or current Court of Session Act 1988 provision, retrieved from the official source.
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When is the deadline for judicial review: application?
Before the end of 3 months beginning with that date, or a longer equitable period. Section 27A (2) preserves any shorter statutory limit. Identify first-arising grounds, actual remedy and permission requirements rather than substituting later correspondence or reasons. The calculator requires the actual event and each condition of the selected branch.
Responsible actor. Applicant invoking supervisory jurisdiction.
Identify the actual court and source branch.
Establish the actual date on which the grounds first arose from the actual court process.
Section 27A (2) preserves any shorter statutory limit. Identify first-arising grounds, actual remedy and permission requirements rather than substituting later correspondence or reasons.
Confirm the actual source event, specified court, applicable branch and each source condition. Only an unaltered ordinary period within the 2024 through 2028 court calendar is supported.
Court of Session Act 1988 s27AHow does this provision count time?
- Count three calendar months beginning with the established event. The supported interval ends immediately before the corresponding date. A missing corresponding date requires separate review and produces no date.
- No automatic extension is inferred for a closed-day endpoint. The calculator refuses that endpoint pending review of the actual court and applicable provision.
- Make the judicial review application. Use the required court route and complete every necessary supporting step.
Count three calendar months beginning with the established event. The supported interval ends immediately before the corresponding date. A missing corresponding date requires separate review and produces no date.
No automatic extension is inferred for a closed-day endpoint. The calculator refuses that endpoint pending review of the actual court and applicable provision. National bank holidays do not establish the named court’s closure dates. Confirm the complete relevant court closure list.
Court of Session Act 1988 s27AWhat do independently checked examples show?
Fictitious example
The actual source event is Tuesday, October 13, 2026. The confirmed branch is ordinary-three-months. The court period is unaltered.
| Step | What is counted | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Example 1. Ordinary established facts | The actual source event is Tuesday, October 13, 2026. The confirmed branch is ordinary-three-months. The court period is unaltered. Count three calendar months beginning with the event, ending immediately before the corresponding date. The endpoint is Tuesday, January 12, 2027. | Tuesday, January 12, 2027 |
| Example 2. Material procedural branch | The actual source event is Tuesday, October 20, 2026. The confirmed branch is ordinary-three-months. The court period is unaltered. Count three calendar months beginning with the event, ending immediately before the corresponding date. The endpoint is Tuesday, January 19, 2027. | Tuesday, January 19, 2027 |
| Example 3. Closed-day boundary | The actual court has an additional full-day closure on Tuesday, January 12, 2027. No express extension is established for this branch. The actual court date needs review. | The endpoint falls on a closed court day. Check the actual court and applicable provision. No automatic adjustment is inferred. |
Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.
Try these dates in the calculatorWhich conditions and exceptions apply?
- Source condition 1
- I established when the grounds first arose. Later reasons, reconsideration or correspondence do not restart this period.
- Source condition 2
- No enactment supplies a shorter period under section 27A(2).
- Source condition 3
- No different statutory period, extension, sist or court order changes this period.
- Confirm the actual source event, specified court, applicable branch and each source condition. Only an unaltered ordinary period within the 2024 through 2028 court calendar is supported.
- Scotland oral review of judicial review permission concerns request review at an oral hearing from actual decision refusing permission or granting limited or conditional permission without an oral hearing. Scotland permission appeal after an oral review hearing concerns appeal to the Inner House under section 27D from actual decision following an oral hearing on permission. Scotland statutory stated case and appeal route concerns request, lodge or pursue the applicable stated-case procedure from actual statutory decision, intimation, later reasons and case-stating events. Those steps do not establish actual date on which the grounds first arise for this procedure.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for judicial review: application?
Which event starts this period?
Use the actual date on which the grounds first arose. Section 27A (2) preserves any shorter statutory limit. Identify first-arising grounds, actual remedy and permission requirements rather than substituting later correspondence or reasons.
Court of Session Act 1988 s27AWhat can change the ordinary date?
Section 27A (2) preserves any shorter statutory limit. Identify first-arising grounds, actual remedy and permission requirements rather than substituting later correspondence or reasons. I established when the grounds first arose. Later reasons, reconsideration or correspondence do not restart this period. No enactment supplies a shorter period under section 27A(2). No different statutory period, extension, sist or court order changes this period. Missing-corresponding-date month-end cases require separate review. No automatic extension is inferred for a closed-day endpoint. The calculator refuses that endpoint pending review of the actual court and applicable provision.
Court of Session Act 1988 s27AWhat completes this step?
Make the judicial review application. Check the required forms, documents and completion route. Preparation or a later receipt date alone is insufficient.
Court of Session Act 1988 s27AOfficial sources and review
Provisions used (1)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Court of Session Act 1988 s27A | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |