The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 2) 1990
These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 so as—in Admiralty proceedings, to make special provision for the entry of a caveat against arrest of a ship or goods in cases where the owner thereof has established a limitation fund under the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 (Rules 3, 4 and 9), and to prescribe a new form of preliminary act, to include a pleading, in collision cases (Rules 2, 5 to 8 and 10);to allow pleadings to be served during August (Rule 11);to permit service out of the jurisdiction, with the leave of the Court, of a writ seeking certain remedies against a defendant in respect of acts committed, whether by him or otherwise, within the jurisdiction (Rule 12);to require service of the writ and other pleadings on additional parties to an action; to require that counterclaims and notices of proceedings and judgments be issued at court offices and sealed; and to require that a person served with notice of judgment acknowledge service of it before being able to apply for its discharge or variation (Rules 13 to 17);to make provision consequential upon section 22 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1989 (recovery of social security benefits from tort feasors) particularly with regard to payments into court and offers of settlement in such cases (Rules 18 to 21);to alter the time limits for service of appointments to hear originating summonses and to require that certain notices of appointment to hear such summonses specify the relief sought (Rules 22 to 26);to make it clear that summonses in proceedings for taxation of costs in London should be issued in the Supreme Court Taxing Office (Rule 27) and that affidavits in such proceedings should be filed in that Office (Rule 28);to extend the powers of taxing officers in relation to cases involving misconduct and neglect and to provide that in such cases there should be a right of appeal to a judge in chambers from decisions of taxing officers (Rules 29 and 30);to correct some minor errors in the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1990 and an omission from the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 4) 1989 (S.I. 1989/2427) (Rules 31 to 34).