Editing Complaint (section)

==England and Wales==

In 1883, the [[Rules of the Supreme Court]] replaced the term ''complaint'' with ''statement of claim''.  This was then replaced in 1998 with ''particulars of claim'' by the [[Civil Procedure Rules]], which also replaced the word ''plaintiff'' with ''claimant'' as part of a drastic reform of English legal terminology.  Thus, in England and Wales, a claimant now initiates a claim by filing a claim form (instead of a writ of summons), and either pleads particulars of claim on the claim form itself or as a separate document.