Order 7 FCT (Civil Procedure) Rules 2025

Order 7 of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2025 is about Effect of non-compliance. It contains the following rules:

1. (1) Where in beginning or purporting to begin any
   proceedings there has by reason of anything done or left
   undone, been a failure to comply with the requirements of
   these rules, such failure shall not nullify the proceedings.
   (2) Where at any stage in the course of or in connection with
   any proceedings there has by reason of anything done or
   left undone been a failure to comply with the requirements
   as to time, place, manner, or form, such failure may be
   treated as an irregularity. The Court may give any direction
   as it deems fit to regularise such step(s).
   (3) The Court shall not wholly set aside any proceedings or
   writ or other originating process by which they were begun
   on the ground that the proceedings were required by any of
   these Rules to be commenced by an originating process
   other than the one used.

2. (1) An application to set aside for irregularity any step
   taken in the course of any proceedings may be allowed
   where it is made within a reasonable time and before the
   party applying has taken any fresh step after becoming
   aware of the irregularity.
   (2) An application under this rule may be made by
   summons or motion and the grounds of objection shall be
   stated.