Civil Procedure Rules

The Civil Procedure Rules are the rules of civil procedure used in the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice and the County Court in civil cases in England and Wales. They were introduced under the Civil Procedure Act 1997 and took effect on April 26, 1999, applying to cases begun on or after that date, replacing the earlier Rules of the Supreme Court and County Court Rules. The rules were designed to improve access to justice by making civil proceedings cheaper, quicker and easier for non-lawyers to understand, including replacing traditional legal terms with plain English, for example calling a claimant a claimant rather than a plaintiff. A distinguishing feature of the Civil Procedure Rules is that they open with an overriding objective, a statement meant to guide both the application of specific rules and judicial conduct in any situation no rule directly addresses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/