Order 4 FCT (Civil Procedure) Rules 2025

Order 4 of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 is about Place of Institution and Trial of Suits. It contains the following rules:

Subject to the provisions of the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory Act on transfer of suits, the place for trial shall be
regulated as follows:

1. All suit relating to land or any mortgage or charge on land
   or any interest in land, or any inquiry or damage to land
   and actions relating to personal property distrained or seized for any cause, may be commenced and determined n the judicial division in which the land is situated, or the distraint or seizure took place.
2. All actions for recovery of penalties, forfeitures, and all
   actions against public officers may be commenced and
   tried in the judicial division in which the cause of action
   arose.
3. All suits for specific performance, or upon the breach of
   any contract, may be commenced and determined in the
   judicial division in which such contract was formed, ought
   to have been performed or in which the defendant resides
   or carries on business.
4. (1) All other suits may be commenced and determined in
   the judicial division in which the defendant resides or
   carries on business.
   (2) Where there are several defendants who reside or carry
   on business in different judicial divisions, the suit may be
   commenced in any one of those judicial divisions subject to
   any order or direction the Court may make or gives as to
   the most convenient venue for trial of the suit.
5. If any suit is commenced in the wrong judicial division, the
   Court may refer the suit to the Chief Judge to be reassigned
   to the appropriate judicial division unless the Chief Judge
   otherwise directs.