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[Subsidiary]
CAP. 4] The Rules of the Supreme Court-Order 25 [1988 Ed.
service to found an application for committal of the party disobeying the order, but the party may show in answer to the application that he had no notice or knowledge of the order.
(4) A solicitor on whom such an order made against his client is served and who fails without reasonable excuse to give notice thereof to his client shall be liable to committal.
Revocation and variation of orders (O. 24, r. 17)
17. Any order made under this Order (including an order made on appeal) may, on sufficient cause being shown, be revoked or varied by a subsequent order or direction of the Court made or given at or before the trial of the cause or matter in connection with which the original order was made.
ORDER 25
SUMMONS FOR DIRECTIONS
Summons for directions (O. 25, r. 1)
1. (1) With a view to providing, in every action to which this rule applies, an occasion for the consideration by the Court of the preparation for the trial of the action, so that-
(a) all matters which must or can be dealt with on interlocutory applications and have not already been dealt with may so far as possible be dealt with, and
(b) such directions may be given as to the future course of the action as appear best adapted to secure the just, expeditious and economical disposal thereof,
the plaintiff must, within one month after the pleadings in the action are deemed to be closed, take out a summons (in these rules referred to as a summons for directions) returnable in not less than 14 days.
(2) This rule applies to all actions begun by writ except---
(a) actions in which the plaintiff or defendant has applied for judgment under Order 14, or in which the plaintiff has applied for judgment under Order 86, and directions have been given under the relevant Order;
(b) actions in which the plaintiff or defendant has applied under Order 18, rule 21, for trial without pleadings or further pleadings and directions have been given under that rule;
(c) actions in which an order has been made under Order 24, rule 4, for the trial of an issue or question before discovery;
(d) actions in which directions have been given under Order 29, rule 7;