The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Revision) 1980

Mode of entering appearance

1.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to Order 80, rule 2, a defendant to an action begun by writ may (whether or not he is sued as a trustee or personal representative or in any other representative capacity) enter an appearance in the action and defend it by a solicitor or in person.

(2) Except as expressly provided by any statutory provision, a defendant to such an action who is a body corporate may not enter an appearance in the action or defend it otherwise than by a solicitor.

(3) An appearance is entered by properly completing the requisite documents, that is to say, a memorandum of appearance, as defined by rule 3, two copies thereof, and handing them in at, or sending them by post to, the appropriate office.

(4) If two or more defendants to an action enter an appearance by the same solicitor and at the same time, only one set of the requisite documents need be completed and delivered for those defendants.