Date of Enactment: 30 November 2020
The Chief Justice of Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts, having power under section 187 of the ADGM Courts, Civil Evidence, Judgments, Enforcement and Judicial Appointments Regulations 2015 to make court procedure rules, hereby enacts the following –
The ADGM Court Procedure Rules are amended as follows:
1. In Rule 16(1) the words “with that individual” shall be deleted.
2. Rules 16(3) and 16(5) shall be amended to read as follows:
“For the purpose of Rules 16(2)(b) and (c), the claim form shall only be deemed to have been served on the individual when the claimant sends an email, mobile text message (SMS), or WhatsApp (or like messaging) to the individual informing them of the arrangements that have been made to serve the document, unless such contact details are not available to the claimant in which case this paragraph shall not apply.”
3. Rule 16B(3) shall be amended to read as follows:
“A claim form is served electronically on a person −
a. by email, provided that it must be shown that the email account to which the document is sent belongs t...