The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2003
These Rules make amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 and to the RSC and CCR Rules in Schedules 1 and 2 to those Rules. In particular the following new provisions are inserted:A new rule 7.12 which provides for a practice direction to make provision for claims to be started electronically. The practice direction will provide for the continuation of the service known as Money Claim Online which is presently operating as a pilot scheme.A new rule 30.8 which requires any proceedings which raise an issue of competition law relating to the application of Article 81 or Article 82 of the EEC Treaty to be transferred to the Chancery Division.A new rule 34.13A which prescribes the procedure for applications to the High Court by a party to proceedings under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 for the issue of a letter of request for evidence to be taken abroad.A new rule 52.16(6A) which requires any request by a party to an appeal to the Court of Appeal for the review or reconsideration of a decision of a single judge or a court officer to be filed within 7 days after the party is served with notice of the decision.A new RSC Order 52 rule 7A and a new CCR Order 29 rule 1(5A) providing that a warrant for the arrest of a person against whom an order of committal has been made (in the High Court) or a warrant of committal (in a county court) shall not, without further order of the court, be enforced more than 2 years after the date on which the warrant is issued.