The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No.3) 1977
These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court so as to— give effect to the main recommendations in the Law Commission's Report on Remedies in Administrative Law (Cmnd. 6407) by introducing a new form of procedure, to be known as an “application for judicial review”, whereby a person seeking to challenge an administrative act or omission may obtain from the High Court one of the prerogative orders or a declaration, injunction and damages, as may be appropriate ( Rule 5);provide (following the amendment of section 63(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 by section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1977) for every appeal to the High Court from an inferior tribunal, and every case stated by such a tribunal, to be heard by a single judge of the Queen's Bench Division instead of a Divisional Court, except where the decision of the High Court is final or it is otherwise expressly provided (Rules 6, 7 and 12); enable the High Court to order a party to make interim payments in an action for recovery of land ( Rule 4);provide for proceedings purporting to have been commenced against a person who has died to be treated (following the amendment of section 2 of the Proceedings against Estates Act 1970 by section 27 of the Administration of Justice Act 1977) as having been commenced against his estate even if a grant of probate or administration was made before their commencement (Rule 3); enable an application for a stay of proceedings under section 1(1) of the Arbitration Act 1975 to be made to a judge in chambers, a master, or the Admiralty Registrar ( Rule 10(1));make minor changes in the rules relating to the reciprocal enforcement of judgments ( Rules 8 and 9(2)), the evidence in mortgage actions (Rule 10) and Revenue proceedings (Rule 11).