--(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Rules apply to all civil proceedings in the Supreme Court.
--(2) "civil proceedings" includes Judicial Review and applications to the court under section 14(1) of the Constitution under Part 56.
--(3) These Rules do not apply to proceedings of the following kinds:
----(a) insolvency (including winding up of companies);
----(b) non-contentious probate proceedings;
----(c) family proceedings except as provided in the Family Proceedings Rules; and
----(d) proceedings when the High Court is acting as a Prize Court.
--(4) In these Rules the word "must" wherever this word occurs shall be deemed to have been substituted by the word "shall".
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 301 of 2012.
Amended by Legal Notice 126 of 2011. A motion was made by Senator Faris Al-Rawi to negative this amendment (see Order Paper) but the said motion was withdrawn.
Amended by Legal Notice 109 of 2006.
The rule relating to the deemed substitution of "must" with "shall" was introduced by section 3 of Legal Notice 140 of 2000.
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