The Chief Justice of the ADGM Courts, having power under section 187 of the ADGM Courts, Civil Evidence, Judgments, Enforcement and Judicial Appointments Regulations 2015 to make court procedure rules, makes the following Rules –
These Rules may be cited as the ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016 and shall come into force on 30 May 2016.
(1) Except as provided by a rule, practice direction or ADGM enactment, these Rules apply to all proceedings in the Court of First Instance and in the Court of Appeal.
(2) The overriding objective of these Rules is to secure that the system of civil justice in the ADGM Courts is accessible, fair and efficient.
(3) The ADGM Courts must interpret and apply these Rules and any practice direction with a view to securing that the Court is accessible, fair and efficient and that unnecessary disputes over procedural matters are discouraged.
(4) Practice directions may modify or disapply any provision of these Rules during the operation of pilot schemes for assessing the use of new practice directions and procedures.