Rules of Business and Chancery Court – Utah Court Rules

Utah Rules of Business and Chancery Court Procedure – Comment Period Closes November 9, 2026

URBCP Appendix A. Applicability of Utah Rules of Civil Procedure. AMEND. The proposed amendment corrects an erroneous reference to URCP Rule 7A in the list of rules that do not apply in the Business and Chancery Court, replacing it with URCP Rule 7B, which governs domestic relations proceedings outside the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Business and Chancery Court.

URBCP016. Pretrial conferences and parties’ planning conferences. AMEND. The proposed amendment to paragraph (a) changes the deadline for the initial pretrial conference from no later than 28 days after all parties have appeared to no later than 28 days after the first responsive pleading is filed.

URBCP038. Jury trial of right. AMEND. The proposed amendments correct the statutory cross-reference governing the county in which a jury trial should be held and clarify the procedure when no motion to strike a jury demand is filed by requiring the party who demanded the jury to file a request to submit, rather than a notice, informing the court that the demand is unopposed.

Utah Rules of Business and Chancery Court Procedure – Comment Period Closed June 9, 2024

NEW Rules of Business and Chancery Court Procedure – These rules were drafted using the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure as their base line. Thus, the Committee determined that the Rules of Civil Procedure were adequate for the Business and Chancery Court, these rules simply incorporate them by reference rather than repeat the identical language. For example, although these rules include significant modifications to Utah Rule of Civil Procedure 26, necessitating a distinct Rule 26 for the Business and Chancery Court, the Committee concluded that Utah Rule of Civil Procedure 37, including its mechanisms for enforcing the parties’ discovery obligations under Rule 26, could be adopted into these rules without modification and is therefore incorporated by reference. The Rules of Civil Procedure that do not apply in Business and Chancery Court are explicitly excluded by reference in Appendix A.

URBCP001.NEW — General provisions.

URBCP008.NEW — General rules of pleadings.

URBCP010.NEW — Form of pleadings and other papers.

URBCP013.NEW — Counterclaim and crossclaim.

URBCP014.NEW— Third-party practice.

URBCP016.NEW— Pretrial conferences.

URBCP018.NEW— Joinder of claims and remedies.

URBCP019.NEW— Joinder of persons needed for just adjudication.

URBCP020.NEW— Permissive joinder of parties.

URBCP022.NEW — Interpleader.

URBCP024.NEW— Intervention.

URBCP026.NEW — General provisions governing disclosure and discovery.

URBCP038.NEW— Jury trial of right.

URBCP042.NEW — Consolidation and separate trials.

URBCP063.NEW — Disability or disqualification of a judge.

URBCP065A.NEW— Injunctions.

URBCP065B.NEW — Extraordinary relief.

URBCP077.NEW — Business and chancery court; clerks.

URBCP085.NEW— Title.

URBCP086.NEW — Licensed paralegal practitioners.

Appendix A Rules of Civil Procedure excluded from Rules of Business and Chancery Court Procedure