{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appeals-to-traffic-commissioners-procedure-england-regulations-2019/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appeals-to-traffic-commissioners-procedure-england-regulations-2019/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1264",
  "legislation_title": "The Appeals to Traffic Commissioners (Procedure) (England) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/appeals-to-traffic-commissioners-procedure-england-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Lead cases",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if two or more appeals have been made to the commissioner which give rise to common or related issues of fact or law.\n(2) The commissioner may give a direction specifying one or more of those appeals as a lead appeal or lead appeals and staying the other appeals (“related appeals”).\n(3) When the commissioner makes a decision in respect of the common or related issues, the commissioner must send a copy of that decision to the appellants and respondents in the related appeals, and subject to paragraph (4), that decision is binding in any related appeal.\n(4) Within 28 days after the date on which the commissioner sent a copy of the decision under paragraph (3), the appellant or respondent in any related appeal may apply in writing for a direction that the decision does not apply to and is not binding in that appeal.\n(5) The commissioner must give directions in respect of related appeals providing for the disposal of, or further directions in, those appeals.\n(6) If the lead case or lead cases are withdrawn before the commissioner makes a decision in respect of the common or related issues, the commissioner must give directions as to—\n(a) whether another appeal or appeals are to be specified as a lead case or lead cases; and\n(b) whether any direction affecting the related appeals should be set aside or amended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1264/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:37:21.314312+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}