PRACTICE DIRECTION - 24.1
SEALING OF WRIT OF SUMMONS,
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENTS,
FILING OF DOCUMENTS
1. This Practice Direction applies to the High Court and the District Court.
A Sealing of Writ of Summons in the Registry
2. The purpose of the direction under this part is to facilitate the inspection of originating process under Order 63, rule 4(1)(a).
3. When a writ of summons or other originating process is intended for sealing in the Registry, the party tendering the same shall lodge with the Registrar an additional copy thereof.
B Newspaper Advertisements
4. Advertisements which are required by any ordinance, rules or regulations, or order of a Court or tribunal, to be placed in a newspaper shall (unless otherwise provided) be in the language of that newspaper.
C Filing of Documents
5. Whenever statutory forms (e.g. notice of sanctioned payment, forms for admission - under Order 13A) are used, the form number should be marked at the top of the first page of the document.
6. Parties are reminded that a writ and acknowledgement of service ought to be in the new statutory forms. Failure to use them may delay the entry of default judgments.
7. To facilitate the processing of an originating document at the Registry counter, practitioners should identify the dominant cause as the claim nature at the top on the front page of the document as follows: e.g.
Claim nature: A. mixed claim B. land
A list of claim natures can be found in Appendix A.
8. In seeking judgment in default of notice of intention to defend in a monetary claim, the affidavit of service filed in support should additionally depose to the fact that the relevant statutory forms under Order 13A for making admissions have been served together with the writ and acknowledgement of service on the defendant. This paragraph only applies to a writ issued on or after 2 April 2009.
9. Unless there is a direction to that effect, it is not necessary to file list of documents, hearsay notices, witness statements and expert reports. It is sufficient only to serve them.
10. Subject to Order 63, rule 3A(2), every document which, under the Rules of the High Court and the District Court, must be filed in the Registry, should be delivered by hand to the Registry and must not be sent by post or by facsimile machine.
11. The only exception to this requirement is an acknowledgement of service, which may be sent to the Registry by post.
D Commencement Date
12. This Practice Direction supersedes the previous Practice Direction 24.1 on Sealing of Writ of Summons, Newspaper Advertisements, Filing of Documents dated 31 December 1998.
13. This Practice Direction shall take effect on 2 April 2009.
Dated this 12th of February 2009.
| (Andrew Li) | |
| Chief Justice |