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When serving a defence on a co-defendant who lives in Egypt, do I need permission of the court to serve out of the jurisdiction?

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We have assumed that you are acting for a defendant in a case in which there are other defendants. There is no provision in the Civil Procedure Rules to deal with circumstances in which a defendant is required to serve documents on a party that is out of the jurisdiction. The only provision we were able to identify was that in CPR 6.38, which deals

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