The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1993
These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court as follows—rule 3 provides that a probate cause or matter may only be transferred underOrder 4, rule 5 to the Chancery Chambers or to one of the Chancery district registries;rule 4 extends from 4 months to 12 months the period within which Admiralty writs in rem remain valid for the purposes of service;rule 5 corrects an error made in a previous amendment to Order 28, rule 2(2);rule 6 specifies when leave is necessary for an appeal to the Court of Appeal; this amendment is made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18(1A) of the Supreme Court Act 1981; that section and section 77 of the County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28) specify other instances when leave is required;rule 6 further amends Order 59 so as to enable litigants to have the grant or refusal of leave to appeal reviewed by two Lords Justices (instead of by a single Lord Justice);rule 8 amends the provisions relating to the provision of copies of documents for other parties, including those regarding the documents to which a party will be entitled and the circumstances in which a copy must be supplied;rule 9 requires a party who ceases to act by a solicitor in the circumstances mentioned in Order 67, rule 7 to provide an address for service within the jurisdiction, and specifies the consequences of failure to do so;rule 10 applies the rules relating to an application for registration of judgments under section 4 of the Civil Jurisidiction and Judgments Act 1982 to authentic instruments and court settlements to which that Act applies;rule 11 enables the affidavit in support of an originating summons under Order 88 (mortgage action in the Chancery Division for possession or payment) to contain previously inadmissible statements of information and belief;rule 12 provides that applications relating to the powers exercisable by a master of the Queen’s Bench Division under section 56 of the County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28) with regard to the taking of evidence abroad in family proceedings shall be made to a district judge of the Principal Registry of the Family Division; andrule 13 amends the form of writ of fieri facias to enforce Northern Irish or Scottish judgments to show the element of the judgment which relates to interest on the principal debt.