Sch. 1
Practice directions
6. Civil Procedure Rules may, instead of providing for any matter, refer to provision made or to be made about that matter by directions. different cases etc.
7. The power to make Civil Procedure Rules includes power to make different provision for different cases or different areas, including different provision—
- (a) for a specific court or specific division of a court, or
- (b) for specific proceedings, or a specific jurisdiction, specified in the rules.
SCHEDULE 2
Minor and consequential amendments
Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54)
1.—(1) The Supreme Court Act 1981 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 18 (restrictions on appeals), in subsections (1A) and (1B)(a), for “Rules of the Supreme Court” there is substituted “rules of court”.
(3) In section 68 (exercise of High Court jurisdiction otherwise than by judges)—
- (a) in subsection (1), paragraph (c) and the word “or” immediately preceding it are omitted,
- (b) in subsection (2)—
- (i) paragraph (a) is omitted, and
- (ii) in paragraph (b), for “any such person” there is substituted “a special referee”,
- (c) in subsection (3), for the words from “any” onwards there is substituted “a special referee or any officer or other staff of the court”, and
- (d) in subsection (4)—
- (i) after “decision of” there is inserted “(a)”, and
- (ii) after “subsection (1)” there is inserted—
- “or
- (b) any officer or other staff of the court”.
(4) In section 84 (power to make rules of court)—
- (a) in subsection (1), for “Supreme Court” there is substituted “Crown Court and the criminal division of the Court of Appeal”,
- (b) subsection (4) is omitted,
- (c) for subsections (5) and (6) there is substituted―
- “(5) Special rules may apply—
- (a) any rules made under this section, or
- (b) Civil Procedure Rules,
- to proceedings to which the special rules apply.
- (5A) Rules made under this section may apply―
- (a) any special rules, or
- (b) Civil Procedure Rules,
- to proceedings to which rules made under this section apply.
- “(5) Special rules may apply—
