SCHEDULES

F1First Schedule ORDINARY CAUSE RULES 1993

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

Sch. 1 (with appendices 1 and 2) substituted (1.1.1994) for Sch. 1 (with appendix) by S.I. 1993/1956, para. 2, Sch.1.

Sch. 1 (except rule 29.10) excluded (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/291, rule 3.24, Sch. 3

Sch. 1 extended (14.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/124, reg. 30(5)

Initiation and progress of causes

CHAPTER 28RECOVERY OF EVIDENCE

28 Commissions without interrogatories

1

Where interrogatories have been dispensed with, the party who has obtained a commis sion to examine a witness under rule 28.10 shall—

a

provide the commissioner with a copy of the pleadings (including any adjustments and amend ments) and a certified copy of the interlocutor of his appointment;

b

fix a diet for the execution of the commission in consultation with the commissioner and every other party;

c

instruct the clerk and any shorthand writer; and

d

be responsible F2in the first instance for the fees of the commissioner, his clerk and any shorthand writer.

2

All parties shall be entitled to be present and represented at the execution of the commission.

3

The report of the execution of the commission, any document produced by the witness and an inventory of that document, shall be sent by the commissioner to the sheriff clerk.

4

Not later than the day after the date on which such a report, any document and an inventory of that document are received by the sheriff clerk, he shall intimate to each party that he has received them.

5

The party who obtained the commission to examine the witness shall lodge the report in process.