When court proceedings are suspended or stayed, what happens to the periods running in the case, and when do they begin to run again?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In the practice file for this exercise, we read the ruling that suspended or stayed the proceedings, any notice of succession filed by a party taking over another's place, the order resuming proceedings, and the service records showing when each of these was notified.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the paragraph on its own terms: a suspension or stay of proceedings halts the running of periods, and from the time the fact of succession is notified or the proceedings are resumed, the entire period runs anew, so what ran before the stop does not count towards it.
Another reading keeps to what the text fixes and what it leaves open: the restart point is the notice of the succession fact or the resumption of proceedings, but the provision does not name which periods in a case it reaches, so the file must show which period was running and that this paragraph covers it.
Your judgment
Which periods in the file were still running when the proceedings stopped, and what in the papers shows them restarting?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to name the periods it reaches or to change when the restarted period begins, or if a court decision settles which periods a suspension or stay halts.