A request for further and better particulars of the example above might read:

Requests for further and better particulars are sometimes confused with interrogatories.

A negative pregnant which appears in pleadings will often elicit a request for further and better particulars, or an interrogatory.

Pleadings close 14 days after service of defence, reply or defence to counterclaim, even though a request for further and better particulars is outstanding.

The party who believes that the facts are insufficiently pleaded will issue a request for further and better particulars or a more particular statement of the relevant document.

However, requests for further and better particulars relate to pleadings (which define the issues), and interrogatories relate to evidence (which proves or disproves pleaded allegations).

The delivery of a request for further and better particulars is not a condition precedent to the making of an order for them, but the failure to make a prior request is a ground for refusing the order: Ord 6, r 7.