{"id":4927,"date":"2020-04-22T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2020-05-15T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T12:20:12","slug":"extension-of-time-to-file-pleadings-summary-discussion-of-the-2019-amendments-to-the-1997-rules-of-civil-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/extension-of-time-to-file-pleadings-summary-discussion-of-the-2019-amendments-to-the-1997-rules-of-civil-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension of Time to file Pleadings: Summary\/Discussion of the 2019 Amendments to the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The old <em>1997 Rules<\/em> simply states that upon motion and on such terms as may be just, the court may extend the time to plead, without specifying the extended period. This has been revised under the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/rules-of-court-2019-proposed-amendments-to-the-1997-rules-of-civil-procedure\/\">2019 Proposed Amendments to the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure<\/a><\/em> (hereinafter, &#8220;2019 Amendments&#8221;), which takes effect on <strong>1 May 2020<\/strong>.\u00a0[See also <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/suspension-of-hearings-and-deadlines-for-ecq-and-gcq-provinces-areas\/\">Extension of deadlines for 30 days, counted from 1 June 2020, by reason of GCQ\/MECQ<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Motions for extension of time to file a pleading are covered under Rule 11 (&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/when-to-file-responsive-pleadings-summary-discussion-of-the-2019-amendments-to-the-1997-rules-of-civil-procedure\/\">When to File Responsive Pleadings<\/a>&#8220;) of the <em>2019 Amendments<\/em>, but it might be more helpful to include the topic in a separate post. The summary of other Rules may be tracked through the <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/rules-of-court-2019-proposed-amendments-to-the-1997-rules-of-civil-procedure\/\">Menu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/rules-of-court-2019-proposed-amendments-to-the-1997-rules-of-civil-procedure\/\">2019 Amendments<\/a><\/em>, a defendant may, for <strong>meritorious<\/strong> reasons, be granted an additional period of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not more than<\/span> <strong>30 calendar days<\/strong> to file an Answer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A defendant is allowed to file <strong>only 1 motion for extension<\/strong> of time to file an Answer.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A motion for extension to file <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any pleading, other than an Answer<\/span><strong>,<\/strong> is <strong>prohibited<\/strong> and considered a <strong>mere scrap of paper.<\/strong> The court, however, may allow any other pleading to be filed after the time fixed by the Rules.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practical terms, this means that for pleadings other than an Answer, motions for extension of time to file will not be allowed, but motion to admit the pleading filed after the reglementary period may be granted. [See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/rules-on-motions-summary-discussion-on-the-2019-amendments-to-the-rules-of-civil-procedure\/\">Rules on Motions<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old 1997 Rules simply states that upon motion and on such terms as may be just, the court may extend the time to plead, without specifying the extended period. This has been revised under the 2019 Proposed Amendments to the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure (hereinafter, &#8220;2019 Amendments&#8221;), which takes effect on 1 May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1162,196,1194,195,540],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litigation-category","tag-2019-proposed-amendments-to-the-1997-rules-of-civil-procedure","tag-civil-procedure","tag-motion-for-extension-of-time","tag-rules-of-court","tag-rules-of-procedure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6506,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pnl-law.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}