Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2822

The Judicial Committee (Chiropractors Rules) Order 2000

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Council's entry of appearance and lodgement and service of record
     4.  - (1) Within 21 days of the service on them of the petition of appeal, or such further period as may be allowed by the Registrar, the Council shall enter an appearance in the Registry and shall forthwith give notice thereof to the appellant.

    (2) The Council shall thereafter, with all convenient speed, lodge an authenticated Record of the proceedings at which was given the order or decision appealed against and seven copies of the Record and shall serve three copies thereof on the appellant.

    (3) In this Rule "authenticated Record" means a Record certified by the Registrar of Chiropractors as accurate. Where the Record includes a transcript of oral proceedings, the authenticated Record should also include a certificate of accuracy signed by the person responsible for making the transcription.

The parties' Cases: lodgement and contents
     5.  - (1) Within 28 days of the lodging of the Record in the Registry the appellant and the Council shall each lodge in the Registry seven copies of their respective Cases.

    (2) The Cases shall be printed or typewritten, shall consist of paragraphs numbered consecutively and shall state as concisely as possible the circumstances out of which the appeal arises, the contentions to be urged by the party lodging the Case and the reasons for appeal.

    (3) The Case shall be signed by at least one of the Counsel who is to attend at the hearing of the appeal or by the appellant himself if he is to conduct his appeal in person.

Exchange of Cases and setting down
     6. As soon as the Cases on both sides are lodged the appeal is thereby set down for hearing and the parties shall then exchange Cases by delivering each to the other three copies of their respective Cases.

Setting down for hearing ex parte
     7. If the Council do not lodge their Case within the period prescribed by Rule 5, or within such further period as may be allowed by the Registrar, the appeal shall be set down for hearing ex parte provided that the appellant has already lodged his Case.

Withdrawal of appeal
     8.  - (1) Where an appellant who has lodged his petition of appeal desires to withdraw his appeal, he shall lodge in the Registry a petition to Her Majesty in Council for leave to withdraw the appeal.

    (2) On the hearing of such petition the Council shall be entitled to apply to the Judicial Committee for an order that the appellant should pay its costs.

Dismissal of appeal for non-prosecution
     9.  - (1) If the appellant does not lodge his Case within the period prescribed by Rule 5, or within such further period as may be allowed by the Registrar, the Council may lodge in the Registry a petition to Her Majesty in Council praying that the appeal be dismissed for non-prosecution.

    (2) On the hearing of such petition the Council shall be entitled to apply to the Judicial Committee for an order that the appellant should pay its costs.

Withdrawal or dismissal by consent
     10. Where the prayer of a petition lodged under Rule 8 or Rule 9 is consented to in writing by the opposite party the Judicial Committee may, if they think fit, make their Report to Her Majesty on such petition without requiring the attendance of the parties before them.

Taxation of costs
     11. All bills of costs under any Order of the Judicial Committee made on the appeal shall stand referred to the Registrar, or such other person as the Judicial Committee may appoint, for taxation.

Appeal as a poor person
     12. Where a person desiring to appeal as a poor person proves by affidavit to the satisfaction of the Registrar that he is not worth £500 in the world excepting his wearing apparel and that he is unable to provide sureties and also lodges a certificate of Counsel that he has reasonable grounds of appeal, the appeal shall proceed as an appeal by a poor person and the appellant shall not be required to pay any Privy Council Office fees.

Application of general rules
     13.  - (1) Rule 83 of the Judicial Committee (General Appellate Jurisdiction) Rules 1982[2] shall apply as if the reference to "these Rules" therein was a reference to these Rules.

    (2) Rules 17, 18, 71, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 85 and 86 of, and Schedule B to, the Judicial Commmittee (General Appellate Jurisdiction) Rules 1982 shall so far as applicable and subject to the provision of any Statute or any Statutory Instrument to the contrary apply to appeals under the Act; and with the substitution for the reference in rule 17 to the proper officer of a reference to the Registrar of Chiropractors.

    (3) Save as aforesaid the Judicial Committee (General Appellate Jurisdiction) Rules 1982 shall not apply to such appeals.

[2] Set out in Schedule II to S.I. 1982/1676, as amended by S.I. 1990/2297 and S.I. 1996/3170.back