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Simple Procedure Forms and Standard Orders for claims initiated on or after 31 May 2023

Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure) 2016 as amended 

Schedule 2

  • FORM 2A
    Lay Representation Form

    This form should be completed if you are acting as a lay representative in a case.

  • FORM 3A
    Claim Form

    To make a claim, you must complete this Claim Form. You can complete and submit this online using the Civil Online portal.

  • FORM 3D
    Timetable

    The timetable sets out the two important dates by which certain things must be done in the case.

  • FORM 4A
    Response Form

    To respond to a claim, you must complete the Response Form and send it to the sheriff court and to the claimant. You may respond via the Civil Online portal.

  • FORM 5A
    Time to Pay Application

    This is used to ask the sheriff to make an order giving the respondent time to pay (where such an order is available).

  • FORM 5B
    Time to Pay Notice

    This gives notice that the respondent has admitted the claim made against them and applied to the court for time to pay the sum of money claimed.

  • FORM 6A
    Notice of Claim

    This gives formal notice that a claim has been made against you

  • FORM 6B
    Service by Advertisement Application

    You should complete this application if, after taking all reasonable steps to find out the respondent’s address, you do not know what the respondent’s address is. You should send this to the court along with the Claim Form.

  • FORM 6C
    Confirmation of Formal Service

    This is used to inform the court when and how something has been formally served.

  • FORM 7A
    Application for a Decision

    Use this application to ask the court to make the orders which you asked for in your Claim Form if the responding party has not returned a Response Form or Time to Pay Application to the court by the last date for a response, or ask the court to dismiss a claim or make a decision awarding you some or all of your claim if the claim has been settled before the last date for a response.

  • FORM 8A
    Order of the Sheriff

    This is an order of the sheriff in a case which you are a party in.

  • FORM 9A
    Additional Orders Application

    You can use this form to ask the court to make an order in a case. You could ask for a change of timetable, to pause or restart a case or something else.

  • FORM 10A
    List of Evidence Form

    Parties must send a copy of this List of Evidence Form to each other and to the court at least 14 days before the hearing.

  • Form 10B
    Recovery of Documents Application

    If you do not possess a document that you want to lodge with the court, you can use this application to ask the court for an order to recover documents. You can also use the form to object to the order being made.

  • Form 10C
    Application to Open Confidential Document

    Used where someone has claimed that documents are confidential in response to an order to recover documents or a special order to recover documents. That person has given the documents to the court in a sealed envelope. You can use this application to ask the court to open the sealed envelope so the documents can be used in your case. You can also use the form to object to the order being made.

  • FORM 11A
    List of Witnesses Form

    Parties must send a copy List of Witnesses Form to each other and to the court at least 14 days before the hearing.

  • FORM 11B
    Witness Citation Notice

    This gives formal notice that you have been cited as a witness in a case.

  • FORM 11C
    Child Witness Notice

    This is used to tell the court that a witness who is to give evidence in the case is a child witness (someone who is under 18 when the case begins). It may also request the court to authorise the use of special measures to take the child witness’s evidence or decide that no special measures are required.

  • FORM 11D
    Vulnerable Witness Application

    This application is used to ask the court to decide if a witness who is to give evidence in the case is a vulnerable witness and if such a decision is made to authorise the use of special measures to take the vulnerable witnesses evidence.

  • FORM 11E
    Special Measures Review Application

    This application is used to ask the court to change the arrangements that have been made where the court has decided that a child witness or a vulnerable witness should use a special measure to give evidence.

  • FORM 13A
    Decision Form

    This contains the terms of the decision that the sheriff has made at the end of the case and can be used to enforce the decision

  • FORM 13B
    Application to Recall

    You can use this application to ask the sheriff to recall a decision made because of your failure to attend a hearing or take a step in simple procedure. You can also use the form to object to the recall of the decision.

  • FORM 15B
    Alternative Decision Application

    This can be used when the sheriff made a decision ordering the respondent to deliver something to the claimant or do something for the claimant. If the court alternatively ordered the respondent to pay the claimant a sum of money, then this application can be used to ask the court to make that order.

  • FORM 16A
    Appeal Form

    You can use this to appeal the decision made by the sheriff at the end of a case.

  • FORM 16B
    Appeal Report

    This sets out the legal questions which the Sheriff Appeal Court will answer in the appeal.

  • FORM 17A
    CJEU Reference Form

    This is the form of reference for a preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

  • FORM 17B
    Application to Intervene

    This is used by the Commission for Equality and Human Rights and the Scottish Commission for Human Rights to apply to be allowed to intervene in a case.

  • FORM 17C
    Invitation to Intervene

    This is used by the sheriff to invite the Commission for Equality and Human Rights or the Scottish Commission for Human Rights to intervene in a case.

  • FORM 17D
    Application to Change a Damages Management Order

    This application is used where the court has made a damages management order (which is about how a sum of money awarded as damages is to be paid to and managed for a person under a legal disability), but you want the court to change the order. You can also use the form to object to the change being made.

  • FORM 17E
    Application for Instructions about a Damages Management Order

    This application is used where the court has made a damages management order and you want the court to tell the person appointed to manage the money how to go about doing that. You can also use the form to object to the instructions being made.

  • FORM 17F
    Application for a Child’s Property Administration Order

    This application is used where the court has made an order under section 13 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (section 13 is about the payment and management of money to (or for the benefit of) a child) and you want, or are objecting to, an order which regulates how the child’s property is to be administered.

  • FORM 19A
    Translation Certificate

    This is used to confirm to the court that a document which is formally served in a foreign country has been correctly translated into an official language of the foreign country. It is completed by the translator.

  • FORM 19B
    Method of Service Abroad Certificate

    This is used to tell the court about the way a document has been served in a foreign country.

  • FORM 20A
    Provisional Orders Application

    You can use this application to ask the court to make orders that will protect your position until the sheriff makes a final decision in the case.

  • FORM 20B
    Provisional Orders Hearing Notice

    This gives notice that the claimant has asked the court to make orders to protect the claimant’s position until the sheriff makes a final decision in the case and the sheriff has arranged a hearing about that application.

  • FORM 20C
    Provisional Orders Reconsideration Application

    You can use this application to ask the court to reconsider a provisional order.

  • FORM 20D
    Arrestment Notice

    This is used when the court makes a provisional order for arrestment on the dependence. The purpose of the Arrestment Notice is to inform the third party who holds the respondent’s goods or money that they have been frozen by the court. It is formally served on that person by a sheriff officer.

  • FORM 20E
    Confirmation of Formal Service of Arrestment Notice

    This is used to inform the court when and how an Arrestment Notice has been formally served by a sheriff officer.

Schedule 3 - Standard Orders