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SUPREME COURT RULES 1987 - REG 20.05

Address for service

    (1)     The address for service of a party:

        (a)     who changes his solicitor and files and serves notice under rule 20.01, shall be the business address of the new solicitor;

        (b)     who appoints a solicitor in the circumstances referred to in rule 20.02, shall be the business address of the solicitor; or

        (c)     for whom a solicitor has ceased to act, where notice is filed and served by the solicitor under rule 20.03 without leave, shall be the address stated in the notice.

    (2)     Where the Court under:

        (a)     rule 20.03(3)(a) gives a solicitor leave to file notice that he has ceased to act; or

        (b)     rule 20.04(1), by order, declares that a solicitor has ceased to act,

the Court may, by order, direct what address shall be the address for service of the party for whom the solicitor has ceased to act.

    (3)     Where the Court makes no order under subrule (2), a document in the proceeding which is not required to be served personally may be served on the party for whom the solicitor has ceased to act by filing it.

    (3.1)     A party who serves a document by filing in accordance with subrule (3) shall endorse on a backsheet or on the back of the last sheet a statement that it is filed as such service.

Order 21     Judgment in default of appearance or pleading



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