{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-35.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-35.3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/35.3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "35.3",
  "heading": "Experts—overriding duty to the court",
  "text": "(1) It is the duty of experts to help the court on matters within their expertise.\n(2) This duty overrides any obligation to the person from whom experts have received instructions or by whom they are paid.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 35.3(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/2092), rules 1(2), 5(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 35.3(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/2092), rules 1(2), 5(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 35.3 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/35.3",
    "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."
}