Senior Courts Act 2016

Rules of court and miscellaneous provisions - Rules of practice and procedure

149: Rules of practice and procedure of High Court

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"High Court Rules: How the Court Works"

You need to follow rules when you are in the High Court. The rules can be made about how the court works. These rules can include how to enforce judgments or orders. You can enforce judgments or orders in several ways, such as an attachment order, a charging order, or a sale order. The court can also make a possession order, a freezing order, or an arrest order. Other options include a search order, a contempt order, or a sequestration order. When the court sells personal property to enforce a judgment, the buyer gets good title to the property. This means the buyer owns the property free of any other interests in it. The rules for the High Court are made under section 148.

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Part 6Rules of court and miscellaneous provisions
Rules of practice and procedure

149Rules of practice and procedure of High Court

Without limiting the matters on which rules may be made under section 148, rules may be made under that section in relation to the practice and procedure of the High Court—
providing for the enforcement of judgments or orders, including by any of the following:
1. an attachment order:
2. a charging order:
3. a sale order:
4. a possession order:
5. a freezing order:
6. an arrest order:
7. a search order:
8. a contempt order:
9. a sequestration order:
providing that the purchaser of personal property sold by order of the court by way of enforcement of a judgment obtains good title to the property free of all ownership interests and other proprietary interests held in the property before that sale.