{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-31.12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-31.12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/31.12",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "31.12",
  "heading": "Specific disclosure or inspection",
  "text": "(1) The court may make an order for specific disclosure or specific inspection.\n(2) An order for specific disclosure is an order that a party must do one or more of the following things—\n(a) disclose documents or classes of documents specified in the order;\n(b) carry out a search to the extent stated in the order;\n(c) disclose any documents located as a result of that search.\n(3) An order for specific inspection is an order that a party permit inspection of a document referred to in rule 31.3(2).\n(Rule 31.3(2) allows a party to state in their disclosure statement that they will not permit inspection of a document on the grounds that it would be disproportionate to do so)\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 31.12 substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(3), 10(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 31.12 substituted (1.10.2026) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/817), rules 1(3), 10(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 31.12 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/521), regs. 1(1), 10(3) (with reg. 22) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 9(2)(e); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 31.12 in force at 26.4.1999, see Signature"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/31.12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+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."
}