County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1997
These Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981—to take account of the Arbitration Act 1996 and bring within Order 26 of the County Court Rules (which deals with small claims arbitrations) the rules relating to the procedure to be followed in small claims arbitrations and consolidate the existing law as it applied to such arbitrations under the Arbitration Act (Northern Ireland) 1937 for that purpose;to make clear that the judge may stay or dismiss the proceedings if no certificate of readiness is served within 6 months of service of the notice of intention to defend.