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ROYAL COURT OF
JERSEY
RC17/03
Applications for
Summary Judgment
- This Practice Direction concerns
applications for summary judgment under Rule 7 of the Royal Court Rules
2004, as amended.
- Where an application
relies on a point of law, the application shall identify concisely the
point of law relied upon.
- If the application
relates to a particular issue, it must identify the issue where it is said
that the other party has no real prospect of succeeding on or defending
the issue as the case may be.
- Where an application
relies upon documentary evidence, such evidence must either be identified
in the summons itself or in the affidavit evidence filed in support.
- The submissions or
evidence filed in support of any such application must also set out why
the applicant believes there is no real prospect of the other party
succeeding on the claim or issue or successfully defending the claim or
issue.
- Where the application
seeks permanent injunctive relief or specific performance such an
application must be made to the Royal Court.
This Practice
Direction shall come into force on 1st June 2017.
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