Common Law Procedure Amendment Act (Ireland) 1853

Writs for Commencement of Actions to be issued in rotation for the several Courts.

No Objection on ground of Privilege to be valid.

XV. All Writs of Summons and Plaint for the Commencement of Actions in the said Courts shall, by the Clerk of the Writs, be entered and appropriated to the several Superior Courts of Law in rotation by Twenty-fives, that is to say, the First Twenty-five for the Queen’s Bench, the Second Twenty-five for the Common Pleas, and the Third Twenty-five for the Exchequer, and so on in continuous Rotation of Twenty-fives for the several Courts, so as to produce and keep up an equal Distribution of such Writs; and all subsequent Proceedings in any Action so commenced shall be had and taken in the Court to which the said Writ shall be in the Course of Rotation appropriated, and shall be the Business of the said Court and the Offices thereof: Provided always, that no Objection on the Ground of any Privilege possessed or claimed by any Defendant to be sued in any particular Court shall be valid in any such Action.