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Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

30.  In rule 6.33 for subsection (1) substitute—

(1) The claimant may serve the claim form on the defendant out of the United Kingdom where each claim against the defendant to be served and included in the claim form is a claim which the court has power to determine under the 1982 Act or the Lugano Convention and—

(a)no proceedings between the parties concerning the same claim are pending in the courts of any other part of the |United Kingdom or any other Convention territory; and

(b)(i)the defendant is domiciled in the United Kingdom or in any Convention territory;

(ii)the proceedings are within article 16 of Schedule 1 to the 1982 Act or article 22 of the Lugano Convention; or

(iii)the defendant is a party to an agreement conferring jurisdiction, within article 17 of Schedule 1 to the 1982 Act or article 23 of the Lugano Convention..