{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2019/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2019/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1118",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2019",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (SI 1998/3132) by—\namending rule 45.42(2)(a), which defines an “Aarhus Convention claim”, so that the definition includes a statutory review which is within the scope of Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention, in addition to a judicial review within the scope of Article 9(3); and\nsubstituting for Part 53 (defamation claims) a new Part 53 which provides for the Media and Communications List, which is a specialist list in the High Court for defamation claims and other media and communications claims.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1118/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:42.435011+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."
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