Service out under CPR PD 6B 3.1(20) (England and Wales): criteria, interpretation and applications including GDPR, IA 1986 s423, contribution, consumer rights, third-party disclosure and injunctions

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This Practice Note examines the jurisdictional service gateway, or basis for service, in CPR PD 6B, para 3.1(20), which concerns claims under various enactments. It identifies the gateway and offers commentary on the manner in which the courts have interpreted it...

This Practice Note should be read alongside Practice Note: Cross border service—jurisdictional gateways (principles)...

What criteria will need to be met?

Gateway 20 (CPR PD 6B, para 3.1(20)) provides that a claim is made:

(a) under an enactment that permits proceedings to be issued, where those proceedings are not encompassed by any other ground in this paragraph; or
(b) under the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No. 76/308/EEC, where service is to be effected in a Member State of the European Union.

It should be observed that the second limb was removed with effect from 1 January 2021 by the 107th update Practice Direction Amendments. However, it continues to appear in the official version of the CPR and is therefore set out above...

The first limb of gateway 20 sets out two requirements:

the claim...

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