{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1569",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-4-rules-2015",
  "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 (S.I. 1998/3132) by—\namending rule 3.1 (court’s general powers of management) to make it clear that the court’s powers include hearing an Early Neutral Evaluation;\ninserting a new rule 3.1A making provision for the way in which the court is to approach case management in a case where at least one of the parties is unrepresented;\ninserting in Part 5 a cross-reference to provisions which disapply, or apply with modifications, provisions in that Part about access to court documents;\namending rule 7.4 to ensure that the claimant not only serves particulars of claim on the defendant, but also files them;\namending rule 47.6 to alter requirements for the commencement of detailed assessment proceedings;\ninserting a new rule 52.15B covering appeals in planning statutory reviews; and\ninserting a new Part 63A to introduce a new specialist list called the Financial List, to handle the more complex and important financial markets cases.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1569/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:21.103426+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."
}